Pop star Michael Jackson, who recently described how his father had denied him a childhood, is rumoured to be writing a book on how to bring up children.

His parenthood manual, according to Press reports, it is said will be available before Christmas and is said to have been co-written with his latest sidekick Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

A spokesperson for Jackson was unable to confirm the rumours.

The 42-year-old multi-millionaire star recently stunned the university dons and students at the the Oxford Union into silence as he spoke of his "desperate and lonely" childhood.

Scores of students wept as Jackson, the biggest-selling musician of all time, told them in a faltering voice: "My father had great difficulty showing affection. He never told me he loved me, he never complimented me.

"If I did a great show he would call it good. If I did an okay show, he'd say nothing. He too was starved of human emotion by his own father. He did not understand it or how to deal with it."

After mopping up his own tears, he added: "I am the product of a lack of childhood."