Parenting & Family Quote by Joseph Jackson

A father’s compliment can sound like warmth; here it also reads like a carefully framed press release. “They’re really nice kids” is bland on purpose, the kind of praise that travels well in public without revealing anything intimate. Then the line tightens: “Michael is really raising them properly and right.” Joseph Jackson isn’t just admiring the children; he’s grading the parenting. The emphasis lands on Michael’s conduct, not the kids’ inner lives, turning a family matter into a statement about control, standards, and legitimacy.

The wording hints at distance. Jackson doesn’t say “my grandkids” or name them; he names Michael. In a family where reputation has always been currency, that choice matters. It suggests the real audience isn’t the children or even Michael, but the wider public that has watched the Jackson family as a spectacle - talent, trauma, discipline, and controversy braided together. The quote performs normalcy: nice kids, proper upbringing, things are under control.

“Properly and right” carries a moral undertone, like there’s a correct method that can be measured. Coming from Joseph Jackson - long associated with a harsh, results-driven brand of fatherhood and with the machinery of fame - the subtext is almost defensive: whatever people think about Michael, whatever tabloids imply, the next generation is being handled “right.” It’s a bid to stabilize the story, to offer a simple verdict in place of complicated history, and to reassert an older authority by endorsing the new one.