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| Incest inbreeding fears as Dutch medics reveal 85 sperm donors have been used to father THOUSANDS of children |
| 2025-04-16 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Dutch medics have revealed that sperm from just 85 donors was used to father thousands of children, leading to fears of accidental inbreeding among the country's population. The country's gynaecology and obstetrics organisation, the NVOG, said that at least 85 men have become 'mass donors', defined as having fathered 25 or more children each. The organisation revealed that Dutch fertility clinics have been breaking strict rules around donations for decades. In some cases, clinics had deliberately used sperm batches from the same donors multiple times, exchanged sperm without the necessary paperwork or even the donor's knowledge, and allowed some donors to give their sperm at multiple clinics. Most of these mass donors were the biological fathers of between 26 and 40 children, though several had been 50 and 75 each. The most famous mass donor was Jonathan Meijer, a notorious Dutch YouTuber who has so far fathered 550 children and was the star of Netflix documentary 'The Man with 1,000 Kids.' At least 10 of these mass donors were fertility doctors themselves. 'The number of mass donors in the clinics should have been zero,' said Marieke Schoonenberg, the head of the Dutch professional association of gynaecologists (NVOG), after an investigation by the NOS public broadcaster. 'We want to offer our apologies on behalf of the profession. We did not do it right.' Ties van der Meer, of Stichting Donorkind, a foundation that helps children trace their donor fathers, said the revelation was a 'medical calamity', as the new data suggests that there are at least 3,000 people in the Netherlands with 25 or more half-siblings. In a small, dense country like Holland, this increases the likelihood of accidental incest, he said: 'Once they start dating someone, they're going to have to do DNA tests to make sure they're not going out with a close relation.' 'The harm done to people's trust in the medical system, and in the governments that allowed all this to happen, is just the beginning,' van der Meer said, adding that both children and some of the donors would inevitably suffer more stress. The issue of mass donation came to the forefront of public imagination in the Netherlands after Jonathan Jacob Meijer, a 43-year-old YouTuber from the Netherlands, was revealed to have fathered at least 550 children. He faced a lawsuit in 2023 requesting court action over fears of unintentional incest and inbreeding between his children, and because he had gone well past the Dutch limit of fathering 25 donor children. The donor was found to have fathered at least 102 children in 2017 before a court ruled in 2023 that he must stop making donations or face fines of 100,000 euros (£88,0000) per infraction. Clinics were also ordered at the time to destroy the samples they had. Meijer continued to donate abroad regardless, including to a Danish sperm bank that operates around the world. Meijer slammed the Netflix documentary - 'The Man With 1,000 Kids' - when it was released last summer. He said the docuseries was 'misleading'. It included claims from parents who said they felt 'betrayed, sad and angry' when they learned how many other children he had fathered. Meijer said most of the families knew and were happy with him. He told the Independent at the time that he 'never had the idea to have 100 children or 500 children'. 'It happened step by step. Many donors want to be in the news, but for me if nobody knew about me that would be absolutely fine. Now they do know about me, so I want to explain my side of the story.' Meijer began donating sperm in 2007, aged 25. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #7 Seems to be working OK in the M.E! /s |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2025-04-16 20:27 |
| #6 Given all the Sperm donations in the voter plantations, with roaming donors that result in in the highest single parent (mother only) family births of any group in the USA. One has to wonder the number of 1st cousin mating/births or related hook-ups there. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-04-16 19:00 |
| #5 There is genetic testing before marriage. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-04-16 13:41 |
| #4 21st Century Problems - but way overblown. Most of those dudes only fathered 25 kids. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2025-04-16 13:02 |
| #3 More babies born to women over 40 than teens for first time in US history |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-04-16 10:38 |
| #2 Why... 'Toxic masculinity' and the powerful dichotomy of being a man Some can't take it. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-04-16 10:04 |
| #1 Why do we even have sperm banks? An uncomfortable question that we really should be asking ourselves. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2025-04-16 09:34 |