From Huffington Post:
Debbie (who lives on a farm surrounded by animals) said, ""I was just the vessel. It wasn't Michael's sperm. Just like I stick the sperm up my horse, this is what they did to me. I was his thoroughbred."....
Debbie says she will not fight for custody of Prince Michael or Paris, "I know I will never see them again. I was never cut out to be a mother - I was no good. I don't want these children in my life. My children are my animals now."
Pardon me, lady, but fuck you. You gave BIRTH to these kids. It doesn't matter that it's not your sperm or your egg. The fact of the matter is these children now have no one directly connected to them. Sure, the Jackson family will take care of them as if they are there own (hopefully), but your detachment from this issue is grotesque because, really, it's not about YOU. It's about THEM and THEIR NEEDS - should they ever want or need you.
In perspective, it would be best that this woman has nothing to do with these kids simply based on her horrendous attitude. Nonetheless, these kids will need some bearings in society. Most people want to know some element of where they came from. Many do not have that luxury (my wife and I were in the adoption process for China where most of the little girls who are adopted are abandoned in front of orphanages). Still in all, what kids need most is a family that loves them. Got that, you're doing better than some.
Now, back to Debbie Rowe. While surrogacy is very admirable as is someone who cares enough about a child to put it up for adoption if they cannot care for them, it always mystifies me how some people can make statement like the above and esentially walk away from parts of their lives with no regrets. Husbands from families. Mothers from families. Just move on and forget what came before. We're not talking about a giving surrogate or a mother who had to put her child up for adoption here, we're talking about people who can kick out kids like it means nothing - and treat the event as such.
I considered being a sperm donor way back when. In doing so, I understood that, despite the fact that my "contribution" was to go out into the world without my control or knowledge as to where, there was a possibility that these kids, at some point in their teen years or adulthood, might want to meet me if they find out about me. By sending that sperm out into the world I had an obligation to whomever it created. To reject these kids would be a horrible and cruel act toward them, especially if they are curious. Egg donors understand this. Surrogates understand this as well.
At some point, two of these three kids will come looking for Debbie Rowe because - really - short of tracking down the sperm and the egg she also has an obligation in this mix. She may consider herself a "vessel", but she was the vessel that gave these children life and, in a world where they will not know a single blood relative - and the egg and sperm donors may be hard to find - she may be all they've got to connect to.
In my opinion, simple making that statement on the record ("I don't want these children in my life.") where these kids - who've just lost the only father they've know - can read it, makes her an absolute fucking troll.
UPDATE: An amendment to the Huffington Post article claims her statements are actually from 2004, so it remains to be seen whether she's changed her colors since then. In the wake of this, my last statement on this post is a bit heated.
So in that regard - and in the words of Emily Litella: "Never mind."