So, I was looking at group info for my admin group. The admin group is parent to four groups. But if you look at group info, it shows that the 4 are parent groups of admin. Am I missing something here? If I am not, shouldn't they appear as child groups and not parent? I honestly just think the wording is bad if so.

"parent group" means, that the group inherits permissions from this group.
This means, that your admin-group inherits permissions from moderator, novanisheffects, bmadmin and essentialsadmin.
That's what "parent groups" means. Groups, that give permissions to this group.

If you want that this 4 groups inherit permissions, you need to use the parent-command at them.

I know what a parent group is... the admin group is the parent of those 4 groups. Therefore it inherits all 4 of those groups permissions unless overridden by the group itself. The wording is weird though as it can make it seem like those 4 groups are the parent of admin.

The wording is weird though as it can make it seem like those 4 groups are the parent of admin.

That makes sense to me, because Parent group = parent of that group = gives all it permission to this group
It isn't any different real life. Our parents give theyr DNA to us...

That makes sense... when you look at it biologically, it does make sense.

But from a hierarchy, the admin group is higher than those groups as it can override.

Weird nuances between parent and child I guess.