adding my character a down force without affecting the child's - unity3d

I work at a 2d game in Unity and i have some troubles . My character have a hand which extend when i press E . If the hand collide with an object the hand will stop there and my character will be able to drag that object . If i press R the hand will contract in the character . The problem is that if i jump and in the same time i press E and my hand collide with an object the character remain in air and i dont want that . I want my character to fall on the ground and my hand to remain in the same position . Important : My hand is a child of the Character and if i add a force to the player will affect the hand . And another problem is that i dont know how i can make my hand remain in the same position if it collide with an object . only the part that is attached to the body to move down along with the character .
I tryed to parent and un-parent the hand but that seems to dont be a good ideea. Maybe i shoud make my palm of the hand another object ?

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