Michael Jackson: The Father

As the world proceeds about its business following the death of Michael Jackson, it's hard to shake the public's feeling of concern for the children who've lost their father.

A web-post, whose author has been traced to Susan Williamson of CNN (using the screen name "Emmories"), documents the humbling response being offered to Jackson haters these days:

"Michael Jackson loved these children and gave them everything he did not receive and then some. He was there for them, they had one of the best teachers, speak 3-4 languages, are extremely polite with good manners. They need to be with their grandmother and their nanny, Grace, to whom they call 'mom.' Grace is 42 and has been with these children since they were born. The children have a relationship with the Jackson family whereas they do not with Debbie Rowe. For all of those children out there that are adopted or born by special means you are loved just as much and sometimes more."

People following the manifold news articles about the dead entertainer are fed a lot of repetition without much of the personal Jackson insight like that offered by Williamson.

Grace may be the nanny that Leonard Rowe told People magazine has been with the kids 24/7. According to Rowe, Michael spent a lot of time with his children but they were never affected by his drug use because the nanny was always there.

Michael Jackson abandoned the only home the children had known, leaving Neverland Ranch after its 2005 raid for a nomadic life with his children. Without their primary residence, the children were all the more isolated.

One of the children's home schooling teachers, Brian Michael Stoller, was hired to teach the kids to make films. Stoller was quoted saying, "I didn't see anything interfere with his duty as a father."

Michael's three children have been staying with their grandmother, Katherine Jackson, at her home in Encino, Calif. Sources close to the family describe the scene inside the home as similar to a family reunion, with lots of cousins, and everyone trying to keep the grieving children busy. Twelve-year-old Prince Michael and his 11-year-old sister, Paris, are said to be crying a lot while Prince "Blanket" Michael II is unable to fully understand the loss at age 7.

Before losing their father, the children lived with him in places like Ireland and Bahrain. The children received home schooling of five or six hours each day no matter where they lived. About his student's famous father, Stoller said Jackson was "a real disciplinarian" and that "the kids were in school at least five to seven hours a day."