When a candidate is inactivated, the parent's account is automatically disabled.

Then, if the parent attempts later to apply another child, they cannot log in. They get a message saying "your account is disabled. call support".

They cannot even change their password.

They cannot even create a new account, because their email address is connected to the disabled one.

(If they would have created a new account, we would have caught it and fixed it in the Check for Duplicates.)

This requires a call to our admissions office, which itself is problematic. [Admissions has to call IT, etc....]

I see no harm in leaving these parent accounts active but major convenience otherwise.