Health and Status roll up from task to child to parent

My roll-up formula in my parent row is working perfectly and captures the information from its primary children rows.
=IF(COUNTIFS(CHILDREN(), "Red") > 0, "Red", IF(COUNTIFS(CHILDREN(), "Yellow") > 0, "Yellow", IF(COUNTIFS(CHILDREN(), "Green") = COUNT(CHILDREN()), "Green", IF(COUNTIFS(CHILDREN(), "Blue") = COUNT(CHILDREN()), "Blue", "Green"))))
As others have asked, it doesn't pick up changes in secondary children rows and ideally, I don't want to manually copy/paste the parent formula to each primary child. Is there a way to have a parent row reflect changes to secondary, or even tertiary, children?
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Replace the CHILDREN function with the DESCENDANTS function.
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Awesome, the parent row now picks up all the descendent information. It looks like I still have to paste the formula (with the change to descendants) into each primary child for it to roll-up the information. Is there a way to make it a column formula? Something like, if there are descendants, then use the formula; if there are no descendant, then don't do anything (i.e., leave it blank)?
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