{"id":25421,"date":"2025-12-19T14:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=25421"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:23:33","slug":"i-stopped-paying-child-support-for-my-grandson-after-his-stepdad-tried-to-erase-my-late-sons-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=25421","title":{"rendered":"I Stopped Paying &#8220;Child Support&#8221; for My Grandson After His Stepdad Tried to Erase My Late Son\u2019s Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I lost my son a few years ago, and the grief never really leaves you\u2014it just changes shape. Before he passed, he had been dating a girl, and later I discovered that I did, in fact, have a grandson. Wanting to do the right thing and honor my son in the best way I could, I decided to provide monthly child support, hoping it would help give the child stability and care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, she married another man, and they shared their plan for him to adopt my grandson and to keep my son\u2019s existence a secret until the child was old enough to understand. That was something I couldn\u2019t agree with. I made it clear that I wouldn\u2019t continue paying if my son was erased from his own child\u2019s story\u2014and that decision led to consequences I never fully expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lost my son a few years ago, and the grief never really leaves you\u2014it just changes shape. Before he passed, he had been dating a girl,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":159,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25421","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25423,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25421\/revisions\/25423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}