Domain Driven Design - Parent child relation pattern - Specification pattern

Question

I was wondering which of the following is considered to be a best practice when dealing with parent child relationships.

1) The following example seems to be a commo

Answer 1

I definitely like suggestion number 2, but I think that it misses something important that is found in 3, namely that if a Child object cannot exist without a Parent it should take a Parent object in its constructor. Furthermore the Parent property on the Child class should be read only. So you would end up with something like:

public class Parent 
{ 
    private ICollection children; 

    public ReadOnlyCollection Children { get; } 

    public Child CreateChild() 
    { 
        var child = new Child(this); 
        children.Add(child); 
        return child; 
    } 
} 


public class Child 
{ 
    internal Parent Parent 
    { 
       get; 
       private set; 
    } 

    internal Child(Parent parent) 
    { 
       this.Parent = parent;
    } 
}