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Jackson's Kids: 'We Want to Stay with Grandma'

Posted Jun 27th 2009 12:00PM by TMZ Staff

Sources close to the Jackson family tell us Michael Jackson's three children -- Michael Joseph, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine and Prince "Blanket" Michael II -- say they want to stay with their grandparents, specifically Katherine.

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Sources say MJ's kids will continue to live with Katherine Jackson at the family's Encino home. We're told the family is 100 percent behind this -- feeling that Katherine and Joe Jackson are the only people who can help the children understand who their father was, help them grieve, and teach them to deal with life in the spotlight.

We're also told the kids are healthy but, as expected, they "miss their daddy." They have no relationship with Debbie Rowe, who is the biological mother of Michael and Paris.

All of this will be critical to the case if, as expected, Rowe fights for custody.

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61. This absolutely sucks!!! Joe Jackson is the reason for Michael being so damned. Michael would never have gone through any of this if it weren't for Katherine enabling Joe to be abusive to ALL of the children now he is going to abuse Michaels kids. This is a fact the cycle has never been broken for this family. OMG I pray for these kids.

Posted at 12:01PM on Jun 27th 2009 by I Love You Michael

62. Are Katherine and Joe Jackson separated?? Keep Joes paw of any of Micheal money.

Posted at 5:21PM on Jun 27th 2009 by kixs

63. these "castration rumors" are not absurd, unfort this is how the catholic church USED to build their choirs, castrate the little boys before puberty. when you castrate a little boy before puberty many of the issues michael had will happen. i could see pretending this was a secret when michael was alive, certainly this was joes fault not michaels. but now michael is dead and can't be hurt by this anymore, punish joe, he won't be able to raise michaels kids then. as for the kids not being michaels, no one ever returns adopted children to their birth mothers do they? no they stay with the family they were adopted into, same here

Posted at 12:02PM on Jun 27th 2009 by hel

64. Jack54 - great post. The circumstances make this case a bit different than the norm...

Posted at 12:02PM on Jun 27th 2009 by MJ78

65. Weird as the Jackson's may be, this has been these kids' lives since they were born. To send them to their biological mother who has been pretty clear about not wanting them from day one would be devastating for them--especially if they have to be split up. There is literally no one else in the world who can comprehend what their lives have been like. They need to have each other. I don't get this assumption that just because Rowe is not a Jackson, she will somehow be a better parent. We certainly have no evidence to support that.

Posted at 12:03PM on Jun 27th 2009 by Mickey

66. Gotta say, I think Real Deal sums it up best.....California law will make the final decision, and all the legal experts are saying that Debbie will get them if she wants them., although the judge will listen to the two older children's preferences because of their age. Doesn't mean he/she will agree to place them with the people they want to live with, but their wishes will be considered. I do not consider a woman who sold her children for money to be a true :"mother", but the fact is, she did birth them and that gives her rights that the Jacksons don't have. Very sad all the way around...Michael may have loved them dearly but I think he made some bad choices and followed a strange lifestyle by most people's standards (always forcing his children to hide their faces in public is just one example) and now all of that is going to have a negative effect on the kids he's left behind.

Posted at 12:04PM on Jun 27th 2009 by bluesfan

67. My cousins have a Phillipino mother, yet both kids are blonde haired and blue eyed. There is NO resemblance to their mother whatsoever. If I hadn't seen her pregenant I wouldn't have believed they were hers. It is possibly, but very unlikely those kids are his.

Posted at 12:04PM on Jun 27th 2009 by Lauren

68. I would like to add that Katherine is 79 years old and Joe is 80. WQhat are the chances of these kids being orphaned again? Use your heads - and let the courts decide - instead of a bunch of people -like me - who have nothing better to do on a Saturday morning then to write their "know-it-all opinion. I do not think anyone will listen to what I say but I am smart enough to know that my opinion is squat in the L.A. courts.

Posted at 12:04PM on Jun 27th 2009 by firecracker

69. Of Course there will be DNA testing, and you can be almost 100% sure that MJ was NOT even the sperm donor.

Debbie R has the most right to her own two children. She seems to take good care of her horses, so why wouldn't she take good care of her own kids.
If she wants the kids she should get them.

Posted at 12:04PM on Jun 27th 2009 by Jen

70. I feel bad for the kids. Michaels parents are no prize, between the image issues all their kids have to the stories Michael himself has told. The mother certainly shouldn't get them, she didn't care then so she is out now ... still sadly it's going to be a fight about money because where the kids go the money goes.

Posted at 12:04PM on Jun 27th 2009 by wow

71. Those kids better prepare to start working for grandpa he is going to use those little ATM's and grandma is going to look away as usual and play innocent.The circus will start all over again.The Jackson 3 is on the way.

Posted at 12:06PM on Jun 27th 2009 by myopinion

72. LET THOSE DAM KIDS STAY WITH THEIR MEE MAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LET THOSE DAM KIDS STAY WITH THEIR MEE MAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LET THOSE DAM KIDS STAY WITH THEIR MEE MAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LET THOSE DAM KIDS STAY WITH THEIR MEE MAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 12:08PM on Jun 27th 2009 by Ashleeee

73. What do they need DNA testing for?? The fact is they were raised in the Jackson family! They were with him ALL THE TIME. And despiste some media reports his family was EXTREMELY close. People adopt kids all the time, and have no biological ties whatsoever, that doesnt mean the family that they were raised in doesnt have rights if their adoptive parent(s) dies. Just because Debbie Rowe is their biological mother doesnt mean she autimatically gets custody. They will factor everything in, including Michael's wishes, the wishes of the children, the fact that "blanket" isnt hers (courts dont like to separate siblings without a good reason), and the fact that they dont even know their mother at all. I really hope that they are able to reach an amicable answer so that their isnt some sort of bitter battle, that is the oppossite of what's in the best interest of the children.

Posted at 12:07PM on Jun 27th 2009 by JustMe

74. From an interview:

The singer described how his dad used to beat his children with a strap or the cord from an iron in British TV documentary LIVING WITH MICHAEL JACKSON, and told interviewer MARTIN BASHIR he had a "lot of hate" toward his father.

Michael would not allow his kids to be raised like he was

RIP Michael

Posted at 12:07PM on Jun 27th 2009 by I Love You Michael

75. MJ is NOT I repeat, is NOT the biological father to any of these children, Someone elses sperm was used to father the 3 children. If the Jackson family raises these children then we can all expect to watch the drug addiction begin with the children! It is only a matter of time...............all 3 of them will eventually want to numb the pain!

Posted at 12:08PM on Jun 27th 2009 by lls

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