Backslash Added to Apostrophe Issue

[Eric]

When posting any activity that includes an apostrophe, the site includes a backslash before the apostrophe when writing to the database. For example, “don’t” writes and reads as “don\’t”

I have magic_quotes turned off in php.ini and I added the following action to the child theme functions.php. I still can’t get rid of the unwanted backslash.

Any advice appreciated.

The action is as follows…

add_filter( 'get_topic_title', 'strip_the_title_slashes', 20, 2);
function strip_the_title_slashes( $title, $id ) {
return stripslashes( $title );
}

add_filter( 'get_post_text', 'strip_the_text_slashes', 20, 2);
function strip_the_text_slashes( $text, $id ) {
return stripslashes( $text );
}