Who is Jonathan Jacob Meijer, the sperm donor from Netflix’s The Man with 1,000 Kids?

The Man with 1,000 Kids is a Netflix docuseries that tells the story of four couples and a single woman as they gradually realise their sperm donor has fathered hundreds of children. The Netflix docuseries details how Jonathan Jacob Meijer told those who used him as a donor that he had only helped a handful of families. But as parents in the Netherlands realise their children born using sperm donors look oddly similar, it becomes clear that wasn’t the case.

It later emerges he has been donating sperm around the world. The families quickly become fearful of the potential dangers to future generations if half-siblings unknowingly have children together. A man identified as John, one half of a couple who used Meijer, said on the show: “We thought, ‘Oh f***.

What if these children meet each other and maybe have a connection or fall in love and they don’t know they are related?’ That’s when the real panic started. That’s when we saw the real danger of this.” Here’s what we know about Jonathan Jacob Meijer.

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