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[dido4]

There are Mom and Dad in the living room.

Q1. Is the sentence right?
Do Mom and dad have to be small cases?
Because the sentence pattern there be is talking about unspecified things.

Can(or Should) the sentence be rewritten like this:
There are mom and dad in the living room.

[CP]

The sentence isn't wrong, exactly, but usually you would say, "Mom and Dad are in the living room."

We capitalize Mom and Dad when it's our own mother and father--as though their names are Mom and Dad, which is more or less true for us. Your mom is not Mom to me, just your mom.

On the other hand, if I am just speaking of my parents without referring to them by their "names," but just by their status, I would say (write) for example: My dad wants to meet your dad.
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