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Ignoring the impartiality aspect, I would say no on the grounds that there are better people to ask for LOR (assuming you have professors or bosses you can ask).
No, don't ask them. It's not the right kind of relationship for an LOR. I get that your parents are well-meaning, but you may want to send them an admissions article on choosing recommenders to help them understand.
I, too, have written all of the optionals. My take is that I would like every app to be successful. A school isn't a very good backup if I get rejected. My goal is to make each application as good as possible. Period.
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Don't submit the LOR unless you have a chance ... can't get a decent LOR from a professor, you should ... better to have no academic LOR than a weak one.
... thing I did with my LOR’s is I told my ... candidate. All three of my LOR writers thanked me for this ... I got three really good LOR’s and one was from ...
I'd send an email now asking to arrange a meeting (at the professors convenience) to discuss the LOR. In the mean time, keep a hold of whatever you can from the class