How nice that you never believed the pedophile charges against Michael.  I can tell you as a victim of sexual abuse by my own father for many years when I was growing up, that the fact Michaels "guest room" for his child guests could only be accessed by going through his bedroom, that he admitted to sleeping with his guests in the same bed and that there was a whole wall of photographs of the boys who visited his ranch raises many troubling questions.  How easy it seems to be for some people to overlook all the uncomfortable innuendos and testimonies about what went on at Neverland.  If I were to invite young guests to my house and forced them to sleep with me, I’d be arrested. Michael’s behaviors were often "off the wall"  and very sick.  Neither you nor anyone else is in a position to determine whether or not his "inappropriate behavior" was sexual or not, only the "boy guests" can determine that. 

I can guarantee Michael’s childhood was no more traumatic than mine or the childhoods of millions of other people - most of us did not grow up in ideal circumstances.  That’s not an excuse to cross the line and do the things Michael did.  I, for one, will be enormously relived when the memorial service is over and he is buried and he isn’t in our faces and the news about him assaulting our ears every time we go into the Internet or turn on the TV.  It’s enough!  The man wasn’t a hero - he was a talented, handsome young man before he began to live lavishly, squander millions of dollars and turned himself into a pitiful freak. To die owing 400 million dollars of debt doesn’t demonstrate a person of high character.  He lived in a home that rented for $100,000 a month in spite of all that debt.  Not someone I admire!  I feel sorry for his poor children who lived sequestered lives, received dubious care, wore masks and hoods when in public and had little or no contact with other children.  God knows what kind of education they’ve had.  Again, anyone else who raised their children this way would not have been allowed to keep them.  Too many allowances were made for Michael’s way of life, too many excuses for his behavior.  His crotch grabbing dancing sickened me.  Drugs destroyed him!  I saw a short the other day showing him in a very expensive store jabbing his finger and pointing in multiple directions saying, "I want this, I want that!"  Sickening!  He could have done a lot of good!  He was a 50 year old child, a very scary, man-child.

Cube, ouch! Zap!

I mainly worry about the kids.   I agree, they are almost certainly NOT his biological children, but they are still legally his and raised by him, so their situation will play out as if they were his biological kids.  What worries me is that their upbringing has been so bizarre that they will have a very hard time adapting to the real world… and living with their grandparents is probably NOT the best solution, but neither is living with their biological mothers, who have had practically no contact with them.  Jackson really left them in a sad fix.