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Do You Believe Michael Jackson Was a Good Dad?

SodaHead Celebs 2010/11/10 12:00:00
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Michael Jackson's children reveal their fondness for their father in a new interview with Oprah -- and no matter how you felt about Jackson, you can't help but be a little bit moved.

The kids recall that the King of Pop always treated them well and tried to protect them from his fame and who the media made him out to be -- though that didn't always work.

Paris, 12, told Oprah, "I kind of felt like no one understood what a good father he was. He was the best cook ever. He was just a normal dad, except he was the best dad ... He tried to raise us without us knowing who he was, but that didn't really go so well."

Michael's mother Katherine Jackson, who is now raising the kids, explained that the children often obsess over what their father used to do.

She told Oprah, "What they talk about is, 'Daddy would do this and daddy would do that.' Or, 'That's how daddy did it.' Paris is very emotional. She talks about him all the time. She's the strong one. All the pictures on her wall in her bedroom are of Michael."

Paris says she understands why her dad made her and her two brothers, Prince Michael, 13, and Blanket, 8, wear veils in public so no one would recognize them.

"I appreciated it, [but] it wasn't always comfortable," she said.

In the interview, the kids recall walks on the beach in Bahrain with their dad and hours on the roof of their Las Vegas home watching the lights of the Strip.

Paris said her best memories of Jackson are of "spending quality time" with him away from her brothers.

"Sometimes he would take me to an art museum, because we both loved art," she said. "He was just a normal guy, except for he was, like, the best dad ever. He made the best French toast in the world."

Prince agreed, "He just made the best breakfasts in the world."



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  • Melie 2010/11/12 00:44:48 (edited)
    Yes
    Melie
    +5
    I can't find any reason as to why he wouldn't be a good father.

    I obviously don't know him but from what I've read and from the words of his children, he WAS a good father. But that is not up to us to judge or not.

    R.I.P Michael. I know for a fact that he WAS a good man. Just a good man with problems. But who doesn't have problems? Stop judging him haters, you're not as sane as you think.

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  • MCA Tammy 2010/12/25 15:24:28
    MCA
    Oh ok. it was someone else who held a baby by the ankle. MJ just did it with one arm around him, big deal. STILL STUPID AND CARELESS! Even MJ admitted it.
  • Ashley 2010/11/11 13:29:32
    No
    Ashley
    Based on holding a kid out over a balcony, no. If he can do that, imagine what else he did.
  • Manu Ashley 2010/11/11 14:10:06
    Manu
    WHAT HAVE U DONE.WHEN FOLK WERE NOT LOOKING?
  • KiddCometCaseyleeMichels 2010/11/11 13:24:20
    No
    KiddCometCaseyleeMichels
    cho mos like jackson should never be allowed children period- bitch should of done time behing bars with big white bubba for what he did to those little boys not only at his home but on the road-know from several sources jackson would have little boys brought to his hotel room a coupla his musicians quit over the incidents
  • janet KiddCom... 2010/11/11 13:29:42
    janet
    Lies, all lies you chose to believe, probably because he was different then your buddy Bubba.
  • MCA janet 2010/11/11 14:00:45
    MCA
    Wow. So him paying off families with millions of dollars was to throw everyone off? The little boy who described MJ's private parts accurately, the hanging his kid over a balcony... no, those are not the signs of a good father.
  • Stella MCA 2010/11/15 00:26:10 (edited)
    Stella
    Jordie Chandler did NOT describe MJ's private parts accurately, he said MJ was circumcised, he was not!

    Jordie's father Evan was mentally ill. In 2006 Jordan accused Evan of attacking him with a barbell, choking him and spraying his face with Mace. Evan was the one who molested his own son, not Michael! Evan commited suicide after Michael's death.

    Then there was Sneddon... he had a vendetta against Michael. He was joking about MJ's greatest hits album being released on the same day as his arrest and saying, "Like the sheriff and I really are into that kind of music." He then proceeded to call Michael "Wacko Jacko" and shouting "We got him, we finally got him" to the media, when he had only just began an investigation and had gathered limited information or evidence.
  • MegMayhem KiddCom... 2010/11/11 13:37:27
    MegMayhem
    +1
    You need to get your facts straight before you make an opinion based off them. He was proven innocent, those people just wanted to make money off of him. Obviously the thing about him getting boys sent to his room are rumours spread by unhappy musicians or people wanting to make money by selling stories to the media.
  • wayne MegMayhem 2010/11/11 13:58:06
    wayne
    He wasn't proven innocent. He paid one of his victims $10,000.000.00 to keep his mouth shut. He exuded "Child Molester" out of every pore. Don't let liking his music cloud your thinking. If you ever run into someone who's anything like MJ, the first thing you need to do is get your kids away from him. The second thing would be to report him to the authorities.
  • Carla wayne 2010/11/11 14:41:01
    Carla
    If you are such an expert on child molesters and know how to spot one, why arn't you working for the FBI - they could sure do with someone like you.
  • MegMayhem wayne 2010/11/14 15:28:16
    MegMayhem
    I'm not actually a fan of his music, my siblings just are. What does a child molester look like? What has child molester coming out of his every pore? Sure, he was strange, as are most celebs, but to accuse him of child molesting with no actual proven facts to base it on is saddening.
  • wayne MegMayhem 2010/11/16 16:24:33
    wayne
    I worked in my state's only facility for the criminally insane for 9 years and with pedophiles for 16 years. I worked with over 600 pedophiles during that time. Although they come in all sizes shapes and colors, there are certain characteristics most of them exude. In my opinion, MJ was the quintessential prototype. I thought he was a pedophile long before any charges were alleged against him.
  • MegMayhem wayne 2010/11/17 14:26:21
    MegMayhem
    I'd give you that one if you had ever really met him, but the only stuff you (and I) know are the things that the media puts out. I've never met him myself and he may be a pedophile, but I'm not going to say he is unless I myself caught him in the act or if he had been non arguably proven to be one.
  • wayne MegMayhem 2010/11/30 14:30:16
    wayne
    Well stated Meg. It's generally wise to reserve judgment until you have the proof. When he paid that boy who accused him $10,000.000.00 to drop his complaint, that's probably what cinched it for me. An innocent man is not going to reward such a vile accusation that way if the accusation weren't true. That with all the other factors add up to one thing.... Pedophile.
  • Goat man 2010/11/11 13:22:07
    Yes
    Goat man
    +2
    He may have been strange in soom ways but I think he was a good person and dad. Peace to him
  • farmlady Goat man 2010/11/11 14:05:01
    farmlady
    He admitted to bringing little boys into his bed, and feeding them ;milk and cookies" qualifying how very sweet this was. Look up Judith Reisman's Kinsey Exposed. And look up the North American Man Boy Love Association, and follow some of the links, if they still are up. Molesters talk like this. And they think children are sexual from birth because Kinsey said so. And they put children in compromising situations. And they were probably put into compromising situations when they were children and this is what programs their brains.

    Michael Jackson was a phenomenal dancer and a great entertainer, but the weird plastic surgeries alone shows us that he was never happy with himself, and there was a very deep seated and unhealthy reason for that.
  • crickel 2010/11/11 13:19:50
    Yes
    crickel
    +1
    I said yes; but I would like to qualify that answer by saying there really isn't any way to really KNOW this. I've seen his children in interviews, and they obviously loved him very much and miss him. Is that proof of his being a good dad? I don't know; but it sure doesn't seem to say that he wasn't.
  • Patrick Henry 2010/11/11 13:17:41
    No
    Patrick Henry
    +1
    Money doesn't make up for morality.
  • Manu Patrick... 2010/11/11 14:03:20
    Manu
    MORALITY???? BE CAREFUL SO U DON'T CHOKE ON IT
    THAT IS WHAT CRISPUS ATTUCKS SAID TO PATRICK HENRY.
    THERE ARE MANY FINGERS POINTING YOUR WAY
  • SONNIE 2010/11/11 13:14:03
    Yes
    SONNIE
    +2
    YES I DO BELIEVE MICHAEL WAS A GOOD FATHER BECAUSE HIS KIDS TOLD EVERYONE THE TRUTH ABOUT THEIR FATHER.
  • Roxxi 2010/11/11 09:28:42
    Yes
    Roxxi
    +1
    Loving and caring and trying to protect for your kid to your full ability is all a parent can really do. There is no perfect parent.

    As to if he really was a good parent or not: everyone has different ideas of how they should raise their kid or what a parent should be like. Who are we to judge someone we never knew personally?
  • Myrle Hulme 2010/11/11 07:56:04
    Yes
    Myrle Hulme
    +2
    According to his children he was and they loved him
  • TOMandBILLkaulitz LOVER123!... 2010/11/11 07:42:54
    Yes
    TOMandBILLkaulitz LOVER123!!!!!!!!!!!
    +1
    he might be wired but i believe he was a very good father liek foreal
  • Toria5637 2010/11/11 06:59:23
    Yes
    Toria5637
    Sure, he was loving.. but I dont think we should determine whether he was a good father or not.. we werent his children and what if you passed away and all these people were like "Oh my god they were a bad parent and they molested everyone in the whole world bla bla bla even though I dont even really know him I heard about him once".. xD seriously though! haha
  • Naui 2010/11/11 06:56:16
  • Libertarian 2010/11/11 05:37:55
    Undecided
    Libertarian
    All I know for sure is that he had mental issues that led him to distort his face with plastic surgery and during his decline he became a famous child molester / pedophile. The guy was out there.
  • Manu Liberta... 2010/11/11 14:06:02
    Manu
    A LIBERTARIAN YOU ARE NOT.
  • Liberta... Manu 2010/11/11 23:01:27
    Libertarian
    What does that have to do with libertarian. It's just an opinion on the guy. I never said he couldn't slice his wrist, if he wants. I do think that children should be off limits and obama shouldn't be in the white house. You have to draw the line somewhere.
  • ChathamAve 2010/11/11 05:05:11
    Yes
    ChathamAve
    +2
    Of course I believe he was a good dad - I believe he was an excellent father. I formed my opinion based upon statements made by his children. Anyone who feels differently should pay attention to the responses of his beautiful children.

    * shaking my head in disbelief that this question was posted *
  • Manu ChathamAve 2011/01/01 23:12:51
    Manu
    +1
    I agree. ChathamAve If all fathers had the will and the money they could do what MJ did. He was a very good person but he was an entertainer,that is show Biz.
    Greedy people were saying everything against him to get money. MJ taught us a lesson in humanity and love for peace and harmony,but the haters will say all the negatives they want.
  • PRISCIℓℓA♥ 2010/11/11 04:27:37
    Yes
    PRISCIℓℓA♥
    i believe so
  • ☆Snapefangirl☆ 2010/11/11 04:24:58
    Undecided
    ☆Snapefangirl☆
    I wouldn't know. People tend to act differently in public life than in their private life. However I never heard charges brought against MJ for abusing his own kids, so I guess he was okay.
  • bub 2010/11/11 03:40:40
    Undecided
    bub
    I don't know? Did not know the man in person? Celebs are always different that the media makes them out to be...
  • FraidSkinkle 2010/11/11 03:24:47
    Undecided
    FraidSkinkle
    +3
    i wouldnt know.. hes not my dad
  • Jakki 2010/11/11 03:03:48
    Yes
    Jakki
    Yeaah He Is The Most Kindly Person In The Wolrd !!!!!!! He Love Chileren A Lot !!!!!!!
  • Caca 2010/11/11 02:21:32
    No
    Caca
    naw hes acreppy ass pedophile
  • BBoy legacy 2010/11/11 02:20:22
    Yes
    BBoy legacy
    +1
    He was nothing like John Lennon in fathering.. Lennon was amazing... but did he really get along with his son.. I don't think so...

    Micheal seemed like the type of guy who only comes once each 300 years.. He made people smile.. He scared people.. and most of all.. He was an Idol tens of millions..
    He made my transition into B-Boying so powerfull... He was the best dancer, singer... and it seems like he would make a person laugh too.. It seems like just yesterday that he passed.. I miss him.. I really wasnt a fan of him before he passed.. I just wasnt.. I was at summerschool when I had found out that he passed.. (good summerschool) and I was very confused.
    I did a hell lot of research on him. He was a VERY nice guy. He seemed like an awkward fellow when ever the papparatzi chased him around... but nowadays.. what celebrity dosnt..
    He took very great care of his children.. When I grow up.. I'm going to go to Los Angeles.. find his Neverland place.. and I'll pay whatever it takes to tour it.

    R.I.P Micheal Jackson



    1958 - Forever
  • Hales 2010/11/11 02:19:10
    Undecided
    Hales
    +1
    The only ones to decide that are his children.
  • Stealthy 2010/11/11 02:01:18
    Undecided
    Stealthy
    How am I supposed to know
  • SodaHead Headlines 2010/11/11 01:12:18
    Yes
    if his kids say it, I believe it

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