Thread: A problem in inheritance in C++

I have a little stupid question, hope some will help

okay, let's say like this. I have a template class, eg. class Human, therefore it can not be modified.

Ok, now I write a class, eg. class Female, inherit from class Human.

Now the problem is, if i have a function return a Human value, and I want to assign the value to Female, this is typically impossible.

For example, like this

Code:

class Human
{
	public Human getHuman()
       {
		return aDummyHuman;
	}
}

class Female : Human{

	private Item handBag;  	

}

And if I have a code like this

Code:

objFemale1 = functionReturnHumanValue("Blah Blah Blah");

Probably I will get an error like
error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'Human' to 'Female'

So what should I do in this stage, to get objFemale1 get all the value of Human properties, plus for handBag, eg. = NULL?

Thanks in advance