Hi,

Your code does not compile; that makes it hard to help.

It's also hard to know just what you want to accomplish. If all you want is to not have to use the data hash, just don't use it!

package Father;

sub new {
  my $class   = shift;

  return bless { news => undef }, $class;
}
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package Daughter;

use parent qw(Father);

sub status {
  my $self   = shift;

  $self->{news} = 'bad';

  return $self;
}

sub other {
  my $self   = shift;

  return $self;
}

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package Son;

use parent qw(Father);

sub set {
  my $self   = shift;

  $self->{news} = 'good';

  return $self;

}

1;
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use lib '.';
use Daughter;
use Son;
use Data::Dumper;

my $daughter = Daughter->new()->status;
print Dumper($daughter);
my $son = Son->new()->set;
print Dumper($son);
$daughter->other;
print Dumper($daughter);
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$ perl 11156317.pl

$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'news' => 'bad'
               }, 'Daughter' );
$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'news' => 'good'
               }, 'Son' );
$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'news' => 'bad'
               }, 'Daughter' );
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Update: improved example

Hope this helps. But it likely won't because I have likely misunderstood your problem.