2024-07-19 11:40:44
In 2017, a Dutch court banned him from continuing to donate sperm because he already had more than 100 children in his country, but Jonathan Jacob Meijer ignored the request and is now the father of a thousand babies.
Although it is known as the Man of 1,000 Sons by the name of the eponymous Netflix documentary series, actually the Dutch Jonathan Jacob Meijer “only” acknowledged his paternity of between 550 and 600 children.
The Meijer case became known in 2017, when A court in his country ordered him to stop donating his sperm to fertility clinics, after having fathered more than 100 children, four times more than allowed by law in the Netherlands.
However, the man did not listen to the court and Six years later, her case returned to court, after a woman and a foundation that supported her filed a civil lawsuit against her in 2023.as Meijer decided to send its sperm abroad.
The 43-year-old man, He was a donor for about 17 years. And although in court he argued that he had at most between 550 and 600 children, The court said he could have fathered up to 1,000 babies on several continents..
In fact, Meijer is the father of 102 children in his country alone.those born thanks to fertilization programs in 11 clinics in the Netherlands, which increased the risk of incest for their children.
Faced with this reality, a judge prohibited him from making new sperm donations and established that If the ruling is not complied with, the company will be fined $100,000 for each donation..
The Netflix documentary series
The Man of 1,000 Sons addresses the case through interviews with women and families he never informed that he had hundreds of children before donating his sperm to them.
One of the women who was also interviewed by the BBC said that “I’m upset, because at that time he told me that he was donating to five families.“.
“The biggest concern is that these children meet and fall in love, because they recognize something in each other and may not be aware of the fact that they are from the same donor father“, said the woman.
For his part, Meijer assured that he will file a lawsuit against Netflix, since according to him “They deliberately called (the documentary) The Man of 1,000 Sonswhen it should be The sperm donor who helped families conceive 550 children“, he told the BBC.