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Originally Posted by Kelliiii  Not your kids. You don't get a vote. His kids. He picked the person he trusted the most. If the courts see an issue with this, they will address it. If you don't think your mother is the right person to take care of your kids, then get that in your will.
I'm sure she is well aware of her own age and realizes that she isn't the long term solution. In the short term, why wouldn't someone want their own mother (if they had a good trusting relationship with her) to help their kids and make decision for them through the shock of losing a parent. Just because she becomes the primary now, doesn't mean that it how it will be a year from now. Their "primary emotional" attachment just died....how do you know that their grandmother isn't the next closest thing they have? |
I really don't disagree with anything you said. If they are close to their grandmother she needs to be a pivotal rock for them right now.
I'm just saying that everything about these kids' lives has been screwy from the beginning. Everything. From their conception to the fact that quite obviously, the one parent they had was a freak. I don't say that to be unkind - just a blatant observation. The condition in which his body was apparently found, the abuse he put himself through, the anorexia...
I assume his bizarre behavior was directly linked to the crazy life he lived from the minute he sang his first "la la la". It's very, very sad. Tragic, even. The things that apparently happened to MJ as a child should never have taken place.... and they directly caused him to be incredibly abnormal. I can't imagine that he was a *healthy* example for them when he was alive.
Anyway.... I realize I don't get a vote. I'm just saying that I think it would be wise for the courts to consider whether MJ's wishes will really result in those kids having the best shot at normalcy and a healthy adulthood. They've already got so many strikes against them. I realize the choice regarding who they go to was his to make, but given his own emotional instability, I would want to consider whether he was of the mental capacity to have made the *best* decision for those kids when he said he wanted his mom to take them. She may be the *best* person he knew.... but he may not have known any stellar people. There may be someone that will be *better* than her. To me, today, it's all about the lives of the kids going forward, not the wishes of a mentally ill dead man.
He was so, so very gifted. It's been fascinating seeing stuff from when I was a teenager in the 80's. I *liked* his music but I didn't fully appreciate what an *artist* he was.
It's just all very, very, very sad.