(I didn't see your post until I wrote this, so it's addressing Megan's original comment, but FYI)

"They" didn't give Gordon a son -- Gordon has had a son off and on in Bat-continuity for YEARS. He had a son named Tony pre-Crisis who was Barbara's brother and a son named James Jr. post-Crisis (who was originally Barbara's cousin. He and his mother Barbara have been variously dead or estranged for most of the recent years of continuity (mostly because I don't think anyone knows what to do with them) but they're still "out there" unless any recent revamps have wiped them out completely.