{"id":20904,"date":"2025-11-28T22:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=20904"},"modified":"2025-11-28T22:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:18:03","slug":"i-gave-my-life-to-raising-my-granddaughter-while-her-mother-moved-on-now-she-wants-full-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=20904","title":{"rendered":"I Gave My Life to Raising My Granddaughter While Her Mother Moved On \u2014 Now She Wants Full Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Raising a child is never easy, but what happens when you\u2019re raising your grandchild because the parent is off pursuing their own dreams? That\u2019s the heartfelt story of one of our readers, a 58-year-old grandmother who has spent the past decade as the primary caregiver for her granddaughter, Lily. Now, after a divorce and a major lifestyle shift, the mother wants to step back into the role of full-time parent. Let\u2019s delve into this compelling story and unpack the challenges of navigating this deeply emotional and relatable family dilemma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI felt guilty that my daughter, Claire, got pregnant and had a baby at 18. At the time, it was like I had somehow failed her as a parent \u2014 maybe I was too soft on her or spoiled her too much. So I wanted to support her as much as I could.Claire is 28 now. So I raised her child as my own for the past 10 years while she focused on her life, career and dating. Lily, my granddaughter, is a bright, confident, and thriving kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising a child is never easy, but what happens when you\u2019re raising your grandchild because the parent is off pursuing their own dreams? That\u2019s the heartfelt story&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":152,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20906,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904\/revisions\/20906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}