I am really really really getting sick of how everyone in the news media keeps referring to Michael Jackson as "a great father" and how he "loved his kids so much". Aand then the kid showed up weeping and saying how much she loved him at the funeral.
Am I the only one who thinks that heavy duty hard core IV drug addiction, including using anasthetic to put your body and brain in a COMA every night, never mind the constant plastic surgery and the other odd behaviours...
IS NOT GOOD PARENTING???
Lots of children of addicts love their parents and lots of addicts love their kids. That does NOT make them good parents.
Teaching your kids that when they set foot outdoors they ought to wear a freakin' mardi gras mask or a burqua, never mind calling one kid "Blanket". I don't know. I honestly think the kids would be better off with Debbie Rowe. First off, she's not near 80 like the grandma (which means they will probably have to deal with her death in the next few years, anyhow), and secondly, any other court in the country would give custody of a dead person's kids to the other bio parent. Didn't that gay model get Anna Nicole's baby, simply because he was the bio dad?
I can only imagine what it must have been like for those kids dealing with a massively drug addicted father every day.
...not to mention that molesting children is not good parenting either.
I can tell you what it's like from having lived with a massively drug addicted mother every day. I'm sure their lives were quite unpredictable. If anything, though, they may have had it a little better because at least they had a nanny who was there for them. My grandparents were there for me, but my mother was constantly dropping my brother and me off and then picking us up when she was "ready" to be a parent again. The older kids are old enough to understand what's going on in the household. They probably never knew from day to day when Daddy would be able to be there for them. He probably spent a lot of time being "sick" between his drugs and his recovery from all those plastic surgeries. I feel so terribly sorry for them. I'm sure he did love them and did the best he could for them, but that doesn't mean he did it well.
Jo Wrote:<snip>...any other court in the country would give custody of a dead person's kids to the other bio parent. Didn't that gay model get Anna Nicole's baby, simply because he was the bio dad?
Michael Jackson was not the biological parent of any of his children.
They were his because he paid for them and had custody.
cassia Wrote:Michael Jackson was not the biological parent of any of his children.
They were his because he paid for them and had custody.
Thank you!
Buying and selling humans has been illegal in the US since the 13th amendment at the end of the civil war. The fact that the whole world has turned a blind eye to this obvious fact for 12 years drives me crazy. If any of us(hypothetically speaking) tried to buy kids and then pay off people to claim the kids were "gifts" we'd be thrown in jail and labeled looney tunes.
And that Paris girl looks miserable. Not just at the funeral, but every picture(like all 10) there are of her. There's a photo of her picking out stuff at some toy store and she looks like her dog just died.
Of course she misses her dad and thinks he's the best ever. He's one of the only people she's ever had any contact with.
For the record, I did feel bad during her speech yesterday, but that does not make Michael a good dad. If he wasn't The King of Pop, CPS would've been called years ago, such as that time he tossed his baby over a balcony
I thought Jackson used his sperm and had Debbie Rowe impregnanted so they were his? I know he paid her to do it though right? But I thought they were his biologicially? But yeah he did pay for them cause he paid her right? Just a bit confused... I don't really remember how they came about.
I guess I feel badly for the children being adrift in this craziness.
The little girl was just so heartfelt about her "Daddy". I know a few friends who had bad parents or even abusive parents, but still loved them -just maybe didn't deal with them as adults. To paraphrase a quote from my dad*, they love the parent, they just don't like the parent.
And could someone clear up for me the ages? I was under the impression that the older boy was the eldest of the three, but one picture I saw of the kids said that the girl was the oldest. ??
For some reason, the littlest one nicknamed "Blanket" worries me the most. Mark my word, he is the one you are going to hear about later in the tabloids.
* For the record - Actually when my dad used this, it was "I love you always, but just don't like you at this moment", usually when I did something boneheaded
I don't know the ages, but I saw something listed recently as:
Michael I
Paris
Michael II
in order of age. I didn't pay much attention, other than I had no idea that the names were so stupid!
Oh no, it gets better... I think the first kid's legal name is Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. But they call him Prince.
Then came Paris Katherine Michael Jackson.
Then came Prince Michael Joseph Jackson II (which is bullshit because he's not the II as his name is Prince) but they call him Blanket.
So to clarify... Prince's real name is Michael. Blanket's real name is Prince.
Way too confusing. What what his point with all the Princes and Michaels. SHEESH! Couldn't he give one kid a name that wasn't like the others.
Prince was Michael's paternal grandfathers name. As far as celebrity names go it's one of the best imho, at least it has history and reason behind it unlike say Apple Paltrow.
Those kids are not Michaels, they are white.
I say that as a mixed race person who has met tons of mixed raced people(including an Albino one). There isn't a black person on this planet with hair as straight as those kids. Not one, it's not genetically possible. It's also not possible for someone with blck hair to grow it as long as his daughters, hers is almost waist length.
My own mother(and her 5 siblings) are almost 25% black and they have straight hair by black standards. However their roots grow in kinky and then it grows into a soft wave. And all of their hair kinks up after showers or swimming. Because of the dominant black hair gene none of them can get their hair to grow much past their sholders.
btw: when I say black, I mean African not the color black. Everyone in my moms family actually have light to medium brown hair.
Well, if you go by DCFS standards, he did a great job-they were fed and sheltered. Except for the whole hanging Blanket over the railing on the balcony incident. :: insert huge eye roll here ::
Lindsay, I totally tend to agree with you. I just had a debate with my sister though. She has a Jamaican (black) friend who has two daughters and a son with a Dutch (white) guy, and the little kids all have silky curly dark hair. Not as silky as Paris Jacksons (cough cough) but it doesn't have kink, and theoretically could be flat ironed straight.
I don't know. I personally take one look at those kids and see white kids. My sister was saying oh, I see the similarity to Michael! LOL Just goes to show you... you can crash a missle into the Pentagon and call it a plane and destroy all video tape of it, and people will believe you. LOL
I was always under the impression that the black gene was dominant over the white gene therefore, the kids would be black. With every mixed couple I know that has had kids, the one other than white has been dominant.
"I was always under the impression that the black gene was dominant over the white gene therefore, the kids would be black."
With the hair, or skin colour?
I have a friend from Trinidad and that country has been so mixed-race for years. Brown, black, white, yellow... all the colours of the rainbow. Apparently they end up looking different, with two siblings having completely different colours of skin from each other and their parents. There is no absolute rule once the genetics get mixed up.
As to the hair... I'm inclined to believe that one could be a genetic fluke, but 3 is unlikely. Still possible, because you never know what genetics can do, but it gets to be pretty freakin' unlikely at some point!
MJ needed one kid with flaming red hair just 'cause. That would have been hilarious.
IMHO anyone that names their kid "blanket" has a few screws loose, lol
BUT ITA with Jo, MJ is NOT a great father.
A great Father would not do all those nutty things to himself in the same house as his kids are in.
MJ should have checked himself into "Betty Ford" clinic years ago
If he had he would still be alive today!
After all isn't that the "In thing" to do for the elite of entertainment talents such as himself?
MJ
I think the South Park episode had it dead on. He was in no way a suitable parent.
What kind of a delusional culture thinks of this sorry-ass excuse for a human as a great person and a good father? Why do people mourn him at all? Except for wasted talent. And I even dispute that. A good father? Why? Show me one example of his good parenting skills.