Indeed but it happens all the time. Hell hath no fury like, in this case, a Mrs Nick who thinks she has been scorned. Any weapon will do but the best weapon will be the one she knows will hurt the most and that is what she is using.
Nick is well able to go round there, break down the door and carry the child off and then spend the next few weeks dodging the cops until he is arrested, banged up and forever barred from seeing the child.
That is the reality of how the system works.
Impossible for him to do anything other than try the legal route and hope.
Or I suppose he could dress up as Superman and sit atop the Liver Building with a banner calling for Rights for Fathers and then get arrested, banged up and be forever marked down as a nutter who could not be trusted and thus not allowed near the Boy.
Yes mate it boils my piss too but that's the way it is. Life is often shit!
I know, I know I know. That's what's so frustrating, and the laws need changing...... fast.
P'raps this new administration will finally look at this serious problem, and actually do something about this intolerable situation.
As you rightly say, many wimmin do all this just to spite the father, without a second thought for the damage they are doing to the child/ren. Downright bloody evil.
I had some of this shite when I split up from Mrs G#1 back in '78, but only to the extent that I was given strict times for pick up and return, and initially from the bottom of the road.
Made to feel like some sort of friggin' criminal.