Getting the parent div of element

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This should be really simple but I’m having trouble with it. How do I get a parent div of a child element?

My HTML: 

<div id="test">
    <p id="myParagraph">Testing</p>
</div>

My JavaScript: 

var pDoc = document.getElementById("myParagraph");
var parentDiv = ??????????

I would have thought document.parent or parent.container would work but I keep getting not defined errors. Note that the pDoc is defined, just not certain variables of it.

Any ideas?

P.S. I would prefer to avoid jQuery if possible.

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