Multiple Children with Multiple Parents

I'm so glad you understand my situation! I got the relationships setup and working correctly. Now onto the next and most import issues. 1) On the Permit, I have a field named Status. On one parent, I may have 10 permits with 10 different permit statuses. I'm having trouble rolling the Statuses up since they're not a numeric value. 2) Ultimately, what I need to do is pull one large report showing all of the construction projects with all of their permits and the statuses of the permits. Just how the report link is setup, I need to take that same data and generate a report for my entire construction table. Is that possible?