I Was Hoping The US Social Services Were Better Than Ours...

...but it seems that was a forlorn hope:

Michael Jackson's mother Katherine won the first round of what could be a protracted legal battle yesterday when she was granted temporary guardianship of his three children.

Yeah. Because Katherine and Joe did such a bang up job of raising their own kids...

The family's lawyer, Londell McMillan, told NBC news that the children should be raised by their grandmother because "I don't think there will be anybody who thinks that there is someone better".

Not sure that anyone wouldn't be better, frankly!