The Man with 1000 Kids on Netflix: Who is Jonathan Meijer and where is he now?

Netflix's latest shocking docu-series takes a look at the Dutch man who's thought to have fathered some 600 children worldwide.

Jonathan Jacob Meijer, 43, stood out to those on sperm donation websites thanks to his height and head of thick, blonde hair. But The Man With 1000 Kids, directed by Josh Allott and produced by Kathryn Taylor, hears from the mothers who are concerned for their children with the Dutch man.

The three-part series also investigates the shady parts of the fertility industry and unveils how some international fertility clinics continue to allow anonymous donations due to a lack of global regulations. We also discover similarly odd characters with sinister motives, as well as just how far they will go to put more children on the planet.

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In The Man with 1000 Kids, the call for Jonathan's accountability begins when one parent of a child conceived with his help figures out a curious number of half-siblings lived around town. Meanwhile, at Isala Fertility Centre, a doctor receives an anonymous email alleging that one of their donors had possibly fathered more than 150 children in the Netherlands.

The donor worked directly with families as well as donating to other banks, in violation of a signed agreement with Isala. As explained by clinical embryologist Dr. Max Curfs in the series, limits on sperm donation exist in order to protect the resulting children from the risk of consanguineous relationships, or unwitting incest.

“What happens psychologically to these children that have 700, 800, 900 brothers and sisters?”