> ## Documentation Index
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# bd children

> List child beads of a parent

Generated from `bd help --doc children`.

List all beads that are children of the specified parent bead.

This is a convenience alias for 'bd list --parent \<id> --status all'.
Unlike plain 'bd list', children includes closed issues by default,
since the primary use case is inspecting all work under a parent.

Examples:
bd children hq-abc123        # List all children of hq-abc123
bd children hq-abc123 --json # List children in JSON format
bd children hq-abc123 --pretty # Show children in tree format

```
bd children <parent-id> [flags]
```

**Flags:**

```
      --pretty   Show children in tree format
```