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Netflix’s new docuseries The Man with 1000 Kids has left viewers shocked and outraged.
The three-part documentary, launched on Wednesday (July 3), facilities on the controversial case of Dutch musician and sperm donor Jonathan Jacob Meijer, who was banned from making any further donations after he admitted to having fathered more than 500 children.
It additionally mentions one other donor, Leon, who has sired round 415 kids. He’s alleged to have secretly competed with Meijer to see who might have the very best variety of offspring. Meijer denied this to The Independent.
Numerous viewers have reacted angrily to the tales shared within the sequence by the moms affected by Meijer and Leon’s actions.
“Holy smokes!! The Man with 1000 Kids is just enraging,” one individual tweeted. “Jonathan and Leon deserve some kind of punishment. That’s disgusting on so many levels.”
“It’s shocking to say the least and it’s incredibly f***ed up,” a second agreed. “The lies and deception people make. Some will just use other people’s vulnerability and weakness for their own agenda.”
A 3rd was left speechless. “I honestly don’t know what to say. I thought Our Father was bad,” they mentioned, referring to the 2022 documentary about fertility specialist Donald Cline who was convicted after it was found that he had covertly inseminated dozens of sufferers with his sperm. “But this… idek [I don’t even know]. I have no words. Every episode had a new twist that made everything even worse and I was just like…”
“Yet more proof that we should raze human civilisation to the ground,” one wrote.
“This man is going to cause so many problems for these kids in the future,” one other argued, whereas one added: “They are guaranteed to run into a sibling and not know.”
Despite it being “actually F***ING CRAZY,” another person famous that they “100% recommend” watching the sequence.
Speaking to The Independent, one mom, Suzanne, expressed her fear about how Meijer’s misdeeds would affect the lives of the kids.
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“They can never just date somebody or have intercourse with somebody, they will always need to take care and even then they might not be aware that they’re a donor child,” she mentioned. “It’s a very dangerous and unhealthy situation for these children, and for their children and grandchildren.”
“It’s a public health hazard waiting to happen,” her associate Natalie added. “It’s not about the number, it’s about the dangers that lie beneath the number. The bigger the number, the more dangerous it is.”
Meijer has denied lots of the accusations made towards him within the documentary.
Addressing probably the most stunning one in all all, that he and Leon combined their sperm collectively earlier than giving it to a recipient so as to see whose would “win,” he referred to as it “total slander.”
“It’s insane,” Meijer informed The Independent. “Why should I do that? Why should anyone do that? If it’s in the documentary, be prepared, I will definitely sue the hell out of the whole Netflix crew.”
The Man with 1000 Kids is streaming now on Netflix.