I don't understand WHY this couple is being persecuted. Here in IL, people do abandon their kids. Some at the hospitals, some in JV, etc. The state just takes them and put them in foster care. And then when the foster parents can't handle them, they go into state operated homes where they are watched 24/7, except when they are at school.
I think they are taking these steps because he is adopted. The kids we know of, they were birth children.