Prevent Active Directory Parent Domain Admins from accessing Child Domain

We want to prevent Parent domain administrators (or a similar profile?) from accessing and/or administering child domains. Is this possible, or do parent domain admins have irrevocable administrative access to any child domain?
Asked another way, can a restricted profile be configured for administration of the parent domain that does not cross domain boundaries effectively isolating each domain's administrative needs?
Thanks in advance for input and advice!
Best regards.

Sorry, I was replying again after I read your second paragraph. The parent domain is the Forest root. we have parentdomain.com
parent.parentdomain.com
child1.parentdomain.com
child2.parentdomain.com
child3.parentdomain.com
We do not want the Domain Administrator for parentdomain.com to be able to administer, or preferably, even access the Child Domains.
1.) Can we remove that user from "Enterprise Admin" role and assign a different role so that they can only administer parentdomain.com (effectively demoting that user)?
2.) Promote a Child.parentdomain.com user to Enterprise Admin?
Thanks sorry for the confusion.
Ah ok.
Yes, you can. the answer is the same basically. The group membership is what counts. So in the child domain, remove the enterprise admins group from the child domain admins groups. OR make sure the domain admins of the forest root are not members of the
enterprise admins group. that way they are still only admins in the parent domain.
It is really only depending on group members ship and including those groups in the child domain. by default the enterprise group is included for example, but nothing stops you from removing those groups.
based on the group membership you can also deny them the ability to log on.
the only thing you cannot prevent is the forest administrator account from doing something.
One thing I would like to add though: any admin in the forest domain likely has the ability to still get access if he wants to force his way in.

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