Parent and child taxonomies

Taxonomy is a great term for advanced categorization of content through parent and child relationships. I get it.

When editing a vocabulary, you can structure it as parent terms and children terms.

What is seriously missing is a way to enforce these relationships at node creation, especially if you need to be able to add child terms at node creation.

If you can pick a parent menu item at node creation, why can't you do the same with taxonomies?

I think what people are trying to prevent is the classic Chevrolet Taurus with 13 inch wheels or Ford Corvette with 6 foot bed scenario (sounds pretty funny but in the words if Vinny Barbarinno "It could happen").

I was hoping this would be resolved in D7 which otherwise is terrific.

There have been a lot of threads on this in a round about way but I think a lot of people just go away scratching there heads.

• Two points if you remember who Vinny Barbarinno was.