This is has come from the recent world recession and started in Asia probably Japan. I heard it first from a Japanese business women, she said it is widely used there.
my business has been hit hard by the economic sunami.
1. Blocking or denying the right of an entity to buy, sell or trade in order to force them into bankruptcy, extreme hardship, or extreme poverty usually with the intent of extorting them into giving up something valuable that the aggressor wants. For example: If a country wants another to give up oil, or diamonds, they can commit economic terrorism by starving the other until they surrender or die. 2. Placing restrictions on a citizen in order to deny them the right to buy, sell or trade in order to force them to conform, submit, or comply to the oppressor's rulers or mores.
They are committing Economic Terrorism against the parents in order to force them to give up their children.