{"id":5005,"date":"2026-09-07T14:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hanielezit.info\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:55:35","slug":"dean-cain-sacrificed-his-career-to-raise-his-son-alone-vowing-to-not-be-like-his-own-dad-who-abandoned-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hanielezit.info\/?p=5005","title":{"rendered":"Dean Cain sacrificed his career to raise his son alone \u2013 vowing to not be like his own dad who abandoned him"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEAN CAIN PUT FATHERHOOD BEFORE FAME \u2014 AND HIS REASON IS DEEPLY PERSONAL. The actor best known as Superman in Lois & Clark could have chased every opportunity Hollywood offered, but when his son Christopher was born in 2000, his priorities changed. Dean had grown up without a relationship with his biological father, and he was determined to give his own son something he never had: a father who would always be there. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n

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After Christopher\u2019s birth, Dean and the boy\u2019s mother faced a difficult custody battle. In 2011, Cain was awarded sole custody, and he became the primary caregiver. He cooked his son\u2019s meals, attended football games and jiu-jitsu tournaments, and worked hard to balance parenting with his career. \u201cI\u2019m a very present father,\u201d he once said, making it clear that being there for his son mattered more than being on screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DEAN CAIN PUT FATHERHOOD BEFORE FAME \u2014 AND HIS REASON IS DEEPLY PERSONAL. The actor best known as Superman in Lois & Clark could have chased every opportunity Hollywood offered, but when his son Christopher was born in 2000, his priorities changed. Dean had grown up without a relationship with his biological father, and he …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hanielezit.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1313.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanielezit.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanielezit.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanielezit.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanielezit.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanielezit.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hanielezit.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5007,"href":"https:\/\/hanielezit.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions\/5007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanielezit.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanielezit.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanielezit.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanielezit.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}