{"id":770,"date":"2025-07-03T17:26:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/?p=770"},"modified":"2025-07-03T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:26:04","slug":"michael-jackson-a-controversial-father-or-a-quietly-devoted-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/index.php\/2025\/07\/03\/michael-jackson-a-controversial-father-or-a-quietly-devoted-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson \u2013 A Controversial Father or a Quietly Devoted Dad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Watch the video at the end of this article.<\/h3>\n<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-771\" src=\"https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/z6769190363024_e42a167e14da238fd21ec2fb0fd77d46.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/z6769190363024_e42a167e14da238fd21ec2fb0fd77d46.jpg 736w, https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/z6769190363024_e42a167e14da238fd21ec2fb0fd77d46-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/z6769190363024_e42a167e14da238fd21ec2fb0fd77d46-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In November 2002, Michael Jackson caused a stir by showing his youngest son, Prince Michael II (also known as Blanket), from the balcony of his suite at the Adlon Hotel in Berlin. The action, captured by the press and fans, was considered reckless and sparked a great deal of controversy.<\/p>\n<p>But was Michael Jackson a bad father?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Michael was a protective and close father to his children, Prince, Paris, and Bigi. He sought to provide them with a peaceful and normal childhood, away from media pressure, by covering their faces to protect their identity. He also taught them to be generous, participating in philanthropic activities such as visiting poor neighborhoods and hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Protection of Identity: Michael Jackson wanted his children to have a more normal and peaceful childhood, away from public scrutiny. To achieve this, he covered their faces in public and kept them away from media attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Lessons in Generosity: Michael Jackson wanted his children to know the importance of helping others. He took them to poor neighborhoods and hospitals so they could see people&#8217;s needs firsthand and learn to be generous.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Devotion to his children: Michael Jackson was a very devoted and loving father. Those who worked with him in the family considered him a great father.<\/p>\n<h2>Video<\/h2>\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9ElddgJCgyg?si=2pWySM5kJ-2nMNZ7\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"Michael Jackson dangles his baby over a hotel balcony\" title=\"Play video &quot;Michael Jackson dangles his baby over a hotel balcony&quot;\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/9ElddgJCgyg?si=2pWySM5kJ-2nMNZ7<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9ElddgJCgyg?si=2pWySM5kJ-2nMNZ7\" title=\"Michael Jackson dangles his baby over a hotel balcony\">Michael Jackson dangles his baby over a hotel balcony (https:\/\/youtu.be\/9ElddgJCgyg?si=2pWySM5kJ-2nMNZ7)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the video at the end of this article. Introduction In November 2002, Michael Jackson&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundverse.charmingflowers.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}