Janet Jackson was born in 1966 as the youngest child of a family of talented children. She has had many fans and teens that .
have looked up to her. Her family was fairly big and all the kids fought all the time. She and her brother Michael got along very well and still do today. Why did they get along so well? Michael and Janet Jackson have made many videos and performed together live in many shows. They have shown the respect part in their family. Janet was born May 16, 1966, in Gary, Indiana. She was the youngest of 10 children born to Joseph Walter Jackson and Katherine Scruse. Her sisters and brothers are Maureen, Steven, Sigmund, Toriano, Jermiane, Marion, Michael, and La Toya. Her brother's twin brother, died during 24 hours of birth. She and her family were raised in the Jehovah Witness faith because her mother, Katherine Scruse, was baptized as a Jehovah Witness in 1963. Janet was rarley told how her parents met. "It's funny but my parents rarley told us anything about how they met" (Jackson 103). Unlike her brothers and sisters, she went to a public school in Encino, California, before going to Valley Professional School "from which she graduated in 1984" (Jackson 162). Janet's family's singing abilities came from their mother, Katherine, and definitley didn't get dancing from Joseph Jackson. The Jackson Five taught themselves how to dance and move as they did. Katherine would always joke of how Joseph couldn't dance, saying to him, "you can't even keep a beat" (Jackson 165). In 1985, Janet wasn't too sure of her future beacuse her parents doubted her on everything she would want or try to do. Except one of her siblings, the famous Michael Jackson, nobody really ever cared or listened to her but, Michael. When she needed someone to talk to, she never really went to her sisters, but always to her big brother. Growing up watching the Jackson Five grow, taught her many things in life prior to her singing and dancing career.