This is a child custody case to which this continuing tragedy has been going on for several decades. The issue is that governments consider children 'wards of the State'. In other words, the State is 'Parens Patriae', which means the State is the parent of the children, not the father or mother. The words 'guardian' and 'custodian' mean something different than what people think it means.

[A]ccording to the courts of this land, ... "A child is primarily" not his parents' offspring but "a ward of the [S]tate"; ... parents hold relationship he owes allegiance to the government"; ... parents serve as a mere "guardianship" which "the government places [the child] under"; ... parental authority must be "at all times exercised in subordination to the paramount and overruling direction of the [S]tate"; ... "the natural rights of a parent to the custody and control of... his child are subordinate to the power of the [S]tate";... in deciding whether parent or State will control a child's education, the child's academic progress under the parents - even as measured by State-approved tests - has been termed by State prosecutors as "irrelevant and immaterial"; and finally ... such legal principles and policies form the basis of all this nation's compulsory education laws. (pp. xix-xx)

The mother is considered by the courts to be 'custodial' because she herself is considered a 'ward' of the State. Being a ward of the State, the government's role is to protect her. If anyone ever thought the age old concept of the harem, or in western civilization its called 'gynaeceum', no longer exists, it may be time to wake up to its very real existence. This is the reason why this father is being hunted down.