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title: "Finding the Parent of a Node in a Binary Search Tree with Java"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/finding-the-parent-of-a-node-in-a-binary-search-tree-with-java-1napglvec
source_url: https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/873423941/0/baeldung~Finding-the-Parent-of-a-Node-in-a-Binary-Search-Tree-with-Java
type: article
source: "Baeldung"
published: 2024-03-10T17:53:46.921Z
updated: 2026-03-15T06:17:10.300Z
tags: ["algorithms", "data-structures", "general-programming", "java", "recursion"]
reading_time: 7
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# Finding the Parent of a Node in a Binary Search Tree with Java

**[Baeldung](https://daily.dev/sources/baeldung)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

This post discusses the problem of finding the parent of a node in a Binary Search Tree (BST) and presents three different solutions to solve it: recursion, iteration, and modifying the BST to store parent pointers.

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