Designer babies made to order: Wacko Jacko isn't alone, you know

AMONG the many bizarre moments in Michael Jackson's interview with Martin Bashir, broadcast on TV3 on Monday night, was the pop star's claim that the mother of his third child, Prince Michael II, 'can't handle' contact with her child.

Which is a great pity, because if the mother was around she might have prevented Jackson from dangling the unfortunate child over a hotel balcony railing in Berlin some months back.

Maybe not. Jackson has three children now and their mothers seem to have no influence in their lives.