Robert James Ritchie Jr. pursued a different path from his rockstar father, Kid Rock, becoming a family man early on. Despite a challenging upbringing, Robert is carving out his own music career ...

Ritchie Jr. was just months old when Kid Rock became a single father at age ... There wasn't a lot of financial support coming from the family," Bob Ebeling said in the Detroit Free Press profile.

Gone was any of the old wink and smile he’d serve up on stage or those knowing glances that said he was in on the joke.

Kid Rock is sharing all of the gory details after his recent vasectomy. The singer — who is dad to one adult son, Robert James Ritchie, Jr. — says he made the decision to have the procedure ...

Shannon Curfman checks out a new instrument at Vig Guitars in St. Paul before heading off to a tour rehearsal with Kid Rock in Detroit. (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...