{"id":2291724,"date":"2024-07-10T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-man-with-1000-kids-shows-dangers-of-serial-sperm-sale\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T08:12:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T12:12:26","slug":"the-man-with-1000-kids-shows-dangers-of-serial-sperm-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-man-with-1000-kids-shows-dangers-of-serial-sperm-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Man With 1000 Kids&#8217; Shows Dangers Of Serial Sperm Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-man-with-1000-kids-shows-dangers-of-serial-sperm-sale%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2291724&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Jonathan Jacob Meijer is a multi-talented individual with a YouTube channel that showcases his music, teachings, travels, and more. However, behind the\u200d facade\u2064 of his seemingly philanthropic efforts lies a secret \u2013 he has fathered \u2062hundreds of children through selling his sperm. A documentary called &#8220;The Man With 1000 Kids&#8221; sheds light on the stories of the families\u2062 who used Meijer&#8217;s services and discovered the extent of his genetic \u200dinfluence. Despite regulations limiting the number\u200b of offspring per donor, Meijer&#8217;s reach \u2064extended far beyond \u2064what was \u2064legally allowed, with estimates\u200d suggesting he may have fathered thousands of\u2064 children worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary\u200c raises moral \u2063and ethical questions about the use of reproductive technologies and the impact on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/by-pretending-surrogacy-is-a-right-adults-deny-the-rights-of-children\/\" title=\"Adults disregard children&#039;s rights by falsely claiming surrogacy as a right\">donor-conceived children<\/a>. It also \u2062highlights the consequences of fatherless homes on children&#8217;s development and future opportunities. Ultimately, a Dutch judge ordered Meijer\u200b to stop distributing his sperm to prevent further harm to his children and reduce the risk of inbreeding.\u200b The \u2063case of \u200dJonathan Jacob Meijer reveals the complex and troubling reality of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-blocks-democrats-radical-ivf-bill-but-whiffs-on-the-why\/\" title=\"Cindy Hyde-Smith blocks Democrats&#039; IVF bill, but misses the reason\">fertility\u2064 industry<\/a> and the implications of\u2064 outsourced procreation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jonathan Jacob Meijer is a jack of all trades. The Dutchman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@JonathanJacobMeijer\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>, which dates back nearly 15 years, features hundreds of videos of him making music, teaching, traveling, exercising, philosophizing about life and religion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/securities-and-exchange-commission-issues-multiple-warnings-about-recent-stock-market-volatility\/\" title=\"Securities And Exchange Commission Issues Multiple Warnings About Recent Stock Market Volatility\">buying stocks<\/a>, eating raw meat, and exploring cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Hiding behind the beachy scenes and touristy destinations that dominate the screen showcasing Meijer\u2019s life, however, is the not-so-well-kept secret of the man\u2019s most prolific hobby: selling his sperm to create what is believed to be thousands of fatherless children all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix\u2019s \u201cThe Man With 1000 Kids\u201d aimed to change that. The three-episode docuseries, which currently ranks at the top of the streaming platform\u2019s top TV shows, begins by highlighting the stories of several single women, homosexual couples, and at least one couple rendered infertile via an irreversible vasectomy who solicited Meijer\u2019s help through private procreation websites to expand their families.<\/p>\n<p>After connecting with him via email, the Netherlands residents made concrete plans to use Meijer\u2019s sperm for rudimentary artificial insemination, or, in some cases, a more traditional babymaking rendezvous. Meijer, who used multiple aliases to converse with his clients, claimed he avoided sperm banks and was sometimes happy to do his work pro bono. <\/p>\n<p>Turns out, Meijer\u2019s seemingly philanthropic effort, which the women featured in the documentary say he repeatedly claimed he limited to five families (an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DIEP6dmjrOs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">allegation he denies<\/a>), was a facade.<\/p>\n<p>His sperm-selling scheme was blown wide open when the women who used Meijer to fulfill their desire for children slowly discovered the kids of some of their neighbors, coworkers, and childhood friends were their babies\u2019 half-siblings. The Netherlands restricts sperm sellers to<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/humrep\/article\/21\/4\/852\/585487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> 25 offspring within 12 families<\/a> to reduce the risk of incest and inbreeding, but Meijer\u2019s genetic influence had clearly surpassed that.<\/p>\n<h2>A Road Less Traveled?<\/h2>\n<p>Around 2017, it was discovered that Meijer had deposited his DNA at nearly a dozen of his country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-judge-sperm-donor-baby-belongs-with-mother-and-father-not-moms-lesbian-ex\/\" title=\"Oklahoma Judge: Sperm-Donor Baby Belongs With Mother And Father, Not Mom\u2019s Lesbian Ex\">fertility facilities<\/a>. Documentation and testing ultimately determined Meijer fathered 102 Dutch children through commercial sperm selling alone. <\/p>\n<p>The reach of Meijer\u2019s international and private procreation, however, was far more difficult to determine thanks to his participation in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cryosinternational.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">world\u2019s largest gamete buying business<\/a>. Meijer, a frequent globe trotter, is believed to have partnered with Cryos International to spread his seed in dozens of countries. <\/p>\n<p>Cryos told Netflix that it maintains a \u201cstrict stock management system that aims for the outcome of a maximum of 25-50 families worldwide per donor\u201d but admitted that the contracts it makes suppliers like Meijer sign are not very enforceable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese donors can go in and they can bounce around from clinic to clinic to clinic,\u201d fertility fraud activist Eve Wiley explained in episode two of the docuseries. \u201cEven though they sign something that says that they\u2019re not donating elsewhere, there\u2019s nothing to enforce it, because it\u2019s just a guideline and a recommendation, and that\u2019s the problem. When you\u2019re breeding puppies or livestock and cattle, that is more regulated than the fertility industry and sperm donation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As long men pinky promise they won\u2019t hand over their DNA to any other fertility facility, companies like Cryos freely advertise the sale of that sperm all around the world using childhood photos and search criteria designed to help buyers select someone with desirable physical and personality traits. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that this is morally wrong, but just because it\u2019s morally wrong doesn\u2019t make it illegal,\u201d Wiley added.<\/p>\n<p>Meijer revealed during litigation that he thinks his offspring numbers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/man-with-1000-kids-where-is-jonathan-meijer-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">closer to 600<\/a>, but one Australian woman who bought into Meijer\u2019s plot estimated, after a cursory search and some math, that Meijer maxed out his quota in most European countries and was responsible for the creation of \u201cthousands\u201d of children on other continents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/01\/health\/sperm-donor-fertility-meijer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">News stories<\/a> and a growing Facebook group of women who used the man to become mothers, also suggested a far higher number of Meijer\u2019s children were scattered across the globe than he initially let on. When the women pressed Meijer for answers or the master list of all of the kids he had fathered, however, he threatened to cut any and all contact with his biological children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had been totally failed. We had been failed by the donor, and we had been failed by the sperm bank. So it was like everyone was in cahoots. No one had cared about the legislation, and the sperm banks just wanted our money,\u201d the Australian woman said.<\/p>\n<h2>The Cost Of Babies At Whatever Cost<\/h2>\n<p>A Dutch judge eventually ordered Meijer in April 2023 to stop handing out his gametes and destroy any samples he had already provided to banks around the world to curb the multi-generational risk of inbreeding his sperm-spreading spree started.<\/p>\n<p>The motivation for the judge\u2019s decision was to keep Meijer\u2019s children from enduring any more harm at the hands of his international breeding plans. Yet, even if their biological dad only fathered the recommended amount of offspring, Meijer\u2019s kids were likely to suffer the psychological, emotional, and physical side effects of outsourced procreation.<\/p>\n<p>Reproductive technologies, such as making babies with supplied sperm that come with no relational strings, are <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/25\/as-reproductive-technology-advances-remember-just-because-we-can-doesnt-mean-we-should\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">morally problematic<\/a> because they sideline the natural right children have to a mother and father in favor of adults\u2019 selfish desires.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/10\/meet-the-donor-conceived-comedian-who-wants-everyone-to-know-how-corrupt-and-unethical-big-fertility-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donor-conceived children often experience<\/a> pain\u00a0when they are distanced from their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rachel-alexander-our-brains-are-wired-differently-than-democrats-so-dont-get-too-mad-at-them\/\" title=\"Rachel Alexander: Our Brains Are Wired Differently Than Democrats, So Don\u2019t Get Too Mad at Them\">biological roots<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2018\/07\/sperm-donations-emotional-consequences\/564587\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gametes suppliers<\/a>, too, suffer emotionally once they realize they will likely never develop a fatherly relationship with their flesh and blood.<\/p>\n<p>One thing the show fails to explore is that Meijer wasn\u2019t the only person victimizing the thousands of fatherless children he created. The women who employed a system that intentionally distances offspring from their biological roots put their children at a disadvantage from conception.<\/p>\n<p>Children born into homes without a present father are <a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/life-without-father-less-college-less-work-and-more-prison-for-young-men-growing-up-without-their-biological-father\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">less likely <\/a>to excel in school or even graduate. Fatherless sons, specifically, are\u00a0far less likely\u00a0to graduate college by their late-20s than their peers who are raised by their biological parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wanted to have a baby, so much so I wasn\u2019t thinking rationally,\u201d Patricia, a woman who tried to conceive with Meijer naturally, admitted.<\/p>\n<p>Another problematic element of the sperm selling and buying arrangement is that the women featured in the show had no problem choosing Meijer out of a lineup of gametes sellers based on his good looks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has beautiful blond hair with a big smile and I\u2019m ready to have beautiful babies,\u201d Patricia said.<\/p>\n<p>One interviewee even bragged in episode one that flipping through the catalog of men who could father her child was much like perusing an ice cream menu filled with different \u201cflavors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When these same women learned that Meijer might be in cahoots with other serial sperm suppliers to \u201cbleach\u201d Kenya with blond-haired, blue-eyed offspring, however, they acted disgusted at the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/05\/when-sperm-and-eggs-are-monetized-human-existence-becomes-transactional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eugenic undertones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their own objectification of Meijer because he possessed what they believed to be desirable physical traits was quickly forgotten in favor of concerns that he allegedly played \u201csperm roulette\u201d with another man who allegedly fathered an estimated 400 children to see who could produce the most offspring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Man With 1000 Kids\u201d isn\u2019t simply a cautionary tale about curbing creeps who are obsessed with selling their semen to women desperate to have children. The docuseries also serves as a stark reminder of the emotional, relational, and physical consequences an unchecked, international fertility industry can have on children for years to come.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Jacob Meijer is a versatile individual with a YouTube channel showcasing various aspects of his life, including music, teaching, travel, exercise, philosophy, stock trading, raw meat consumption, and cryptocurrency exploration. Despite his diverse interests, Meijer&#8217;s most prolific hobby of selling his sperm to create fatherless children around the world was revealed in the Netflix docuseries &#8220;The Man With 1000 Kids.&#8221; The series highlighted how Meijer fathered over 100 Dutch children through commercial sperm selling and potentially thousands more internationally through partnerships with Cryos International. The show also delved into the ethical and emotional implications of donor-conceived children being distanced from their biological roots and the impact of fatherless households on children&#8217;s well-being. Ultimately, the docuseries serves as a cautionary tale about the consequences of an unregulated international fertility industry on the lives of children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2291725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Untitled-design-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34488,15671,13029,34487,34486],"class_list":["post-2291724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-family-planning","tag-fatherhood","tag-parenthood","tag-serial-sperm-sale","tag-the-man-with-1000-kids"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Untitled-design-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}