| Some private investigative firms specialize in skip | | | | the birth parents view the child as a product of some |
| tracing and locating services for their clients. Many PI | | | | negative aspect of the parents' life that they want |
| firms require that their private eye employees have | | | | bottled up. Establishing contact between the birth |
| licenses to work for them. | | | | mother and adopted child could open up old wounds |
| There are skip tracing and locating firms that | | | | that the mother had been keeping closed. If such is |
| specialize in locating deadbeat parents who owe child | | | | the case, a private investigator must respect the |
| support. If an agency is hired, the client signs a | | | | privacy of the birth parent as well as deliver this bad |
| written agreement allowing the agency to collect a | | | | news to the adopted child who hired them to |
| residual income or percentage of child support | | | | perform this locating service. |
| payments if the agency locates a deadbeat parent. | | | | Birth parents simply do not want to be found for |
| Often, these agencies are successful in locating a | | | | whatever reason. This obviously leaves psychological |
| deadbeat parent and collecting the money owed to | | | | scars in the child put up for adoption many years |
| the custodial parents. | | | | prior. |
| Other sub specialties for a skip tracing and locating | | | | For the private investigator, this job can also be |
| private investigator are finding the biological parents | | | | rewarding for other clients whose birth parents are |
| of adopted children. This aspect of private | | | | eager to meet the child they put up for adoption. |
| investigation can be rewarding as well as disappointing | | | | The private investigator can find satisfaction in this |
| for the client since it is a difficult field to work. | | | | aspect of investigation by reuniting long lost love |
| Sometimes, biological parents of adopted children are | | | | ones who have been absent from each others' lives |
| reluctant to have any contact with them because | | | | for what seems like an eternity. |