Janet Jackson, 45, wants to take care of and educate Michael Jackson’s children.

Now she reads stories to hers nephews in the evenings and hugs them.

- She loves them as if they were her own, “says a friend of the family.

It was Aunt Janet, who laid the comforting arms of Paris and her siblings during the memory ceremony for Michael Jackson last week.

Friends of the family tells the Daily Mirror and The Sun that Janet has come ever closer to her nephews in recent weeks. She has no children of her own, but take care of Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and Blanket, 7, as if they were hers.

Lives with grandmother
The children now live with their grandmother Katherine, 79, in Jackson’s family residence in Encino.

- They lack their father but the family sees that they are okay. They must not miss the love, “says a familjevän to the Daily Mirror.

Michael Jackson’s spiritual advisor, June Gatlin, talked to him about what would happen to the children if he went away.

- We talked April 16 and then he said that he wanted his mother would take the children and if anything should happen to her so Janet would take care of them.

Want to be with aunt
In his will of 2002 Michael wanted that Diana Ross would have custody of the children if something happened his mother.

A friend tells OK Magazine that there is no doubt that the children want to be with their aunt Janet.

- They melt in her arms when she comes into the house. She has been their rock. It is clear to everyone that they are looking for her. All three want her to read for them in the evenings.

“Their rock”
On Monday, the custody of the children will be raised in a court hearing in Los Angeles.

Debbie Rowe, Prince Michael and Paris biological mother, is expected to attend.