Your posted code runs fine for me, and prints "3" as the parent's test attribute value.

Output: 

going in
in new for cChild and just calling sub_passed_to_child
yes in passed_sub
$oParent_ref is cParent=HASH(0xf18038)
$oParent_ref->{test_att} is 3

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So - you are doing it right !

If you wanted to pass the CHILD, instead of the parent at: 

     ##OLD  $self->{sub_passed_to_child}( $self->{parent_obj_ref} );
          $self->{sub_passed_to_child}->( $self ); ##New, explicitly d
+e-ref the sub

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Then passed_sub would look like: 
   sub passed_sub {
    print "yes in passed_sub\n";
    my ($child) = @_; # I don't like using shift here..
    print $child->{parent_obj_ref}{test_att}; # 3

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Of course, it would be "better", to use a "getter", so typos would be checked at compile time. </c>

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In reply to Re: using passed parent object reference to get at attributes by NetWallah
in thread using passed parent object reference to get at attributes by previous

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