One of the predominant issues in the time following the death of Michael Jackson has been over the custody of his three children. The hearings surrounding custody keep getting postponed, but the issue is between Debbie Rowe (who is the mother of Jackson's two oldest children, Prince Michael and Paris) and the Jackson family (who say that Katherine, Jackson's mother, was named as legal guardian in Michael's will and thus should raise the kids). Recently, Janet Jackson has become more active in the fight for the children, reportedly offering to raise them herself.
Yesterday, we took to the street to ask whether or not you think Janet would make a good mother, with 63% agreeing that she would. But is Janet, who is 43 years old and only recently broke off a long term relationship with producer and label mogul Jermaine Dupri, really interested in raising kids? According to an interview she gave in Norway in 1995, she completely embraces the idea.
"Not right now, but some day. I'd love to have children," she said while on the road for her greatest hits album Design of a Decade. "I'd love to!" And despite her family's checkered history with show business, she says she would encourage any child who wants to act or sing. "They just have to understand how difficult it really is, and how lonely it can be at times."