The Man with 1000 Kids

The average couple has 2.3 children in their lifetime.

But the record that one couple have had is thought to be over 40.

But what if I were to tell you that there is a man alive today

who may have fathered over a thousand children.

And is still going.

What kind of man would do that?

I got to know him on the Internet.

When you look at his video,

he has beautiful blond hair with a big smile,

and I'm ready to have beautiful babies.

He said, "I'm willing to help five families." He lied.

There weren't four or five families.

There were already hundreds.

Overseas, a Dutch man is facing legal action

for allegedly fathering at least 550 children.

Holy sh...

Why are you putting so many children on this earth? Why?

It's become an addiction for him. He actually can't stop himself.

He wants to have the most children in history.

I know he traveled to a lot of countries in the world.

And the question is, how big is this? How many kids are there?

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What happens, psychologically, to these children

that have seven, eight hundred, nine hundred brothers and sisters?

We were determined to stop him.

This man has really fucked with the wrong women.

I always knew that I wanted to be a mom.

I wanted to have the baby growing in my belly.

I want to have the same experience my mother and grandmother did.

I was 28, and I was living in Rotterdam with my ex... ex-girlfriend.

-We don't talk about the ex. -No.

Don't get me fucking started.

-No. No. -Whoo.

And we wanted to have children.

You felt ready.

Yeah, there's an expression, um, in Dutch that je eierstokken rammelen .

That means your ovaries are starting to... to wiggle.

Everywhere I looked, I saw babies.

Women getting pregnant. Babies, babies, babies.

If you want to have a baby, everywhere you see people with babies.

From a very young age, I always wanted to be a mom.

It's difficult to describe.

It's just something that is... It's just there.

I didn't find a man that would have kids with me,

and the older I got, the desire to have kids became very strong.

What went on in my mind, it's just crazy.

I had three kids from a previous marriage,

and I had a vasectomy after the third child.

And then, of course, I married a wife that's younger than I am.

And then we went back to the doctor to see if I could have my vasectomy undone,

and that turned out that was impossible.

When you're a lesbian, you're not... Yeah.

It's not like you're gonna have sex someday,

and then you're gonna get pregnant.

And I'm not, not, not, not gonna have sex with... with a guy.

There are the sperm banks you can go to,

but you can't meet the sperm donor in person.

I want to look the sperm donor in the eye

and see if this personality also fits with my personality

because a sperm donor is making up 50% of your child.

There are websites online with donors

who are willing to provide in private,

not to go through sperm banks,

but going privately to a house and donating there.

And I found a website called Verlangen naar een Kind.

Longing for a Child.

And when I opened it, I saw sperm. Everywhere was sperm.

There were many, many, many profiles.

You couldn't see pictures, but you could see

just a little description.

I was like, "Wow, there are so many guys here who are willing to donate sperm."

I hit enter and then...

All of a sudden, in your mind you... you start creating a profile,

a real image.

It's like, um, when you go to an ice-cream seller,

and you want to buy an ice cream,

and you see all the different types of flavors,

and you can choose from it.

At the bottom, you see an email address, and you can email the person directly,

and I found it perfect.

Then I, uh, write some of the donors. uh, an email, uh, with our, uh, story.

There are weird people out there

who wanted to make the baby, uh, at a natural way.

So not with a cup, but only natural.

-Just actually have sex. -To have sex. To have sex.

So I was like, "No, thanks. I have a husband and I, uh...

I have enough, so..."

The first donor we found was Leon.

He was 35 with a good set of brains,

and that he had, um, a job as a financial advisor at a big bank,

and that he is sympathetic and kind.

He suggested that we should meet.

First time, he sent me pictures of him when he was a child.

So I ask him right away,

"Can I have a recent picture of you?"

Because if you are going on a "date" with somebody,

you want the picture of the guy or the girl.

He sent me a picture of him with half of his face on it,

and I found that a bit sketchy.

But I was like, "Okay, let's go ahead. Let's meet him."

And when I met him, I was horrified.

He didn't look like a banker.

He didn't look like somebody who has a good set of brains.

He didn't have any hair on his whole body.

And then he had a scar from his left ear to his right ear on the back of his head.

So I... I... I saw the scar, and I was like,

"What is wrong with this guy?"

And I thought, "No, not with you, not with your genes."

"You're not gonna procreate with my genes. No, no, no, we're not gonna do that."

"But there probably is another guy."

If you're gay, you're not able to have a child

with another woman, of course,

so I used the website Verlangen naar een Kind,

Longing for a Child.

It's really weird. It's like a shop.

So I went online, and I found another guy.

Twenty-nine, good-looking, good set of hair, good set of brains.

A teacher.

And I thought, "Okay, it's worth to message this guy again."

And the next one, uh, called himself Maarten.

In the first email, he sent pictures of himself.

Not baby pictures, but actual pictures of how he looked just now.

With his... with his hair all curled up and pretty

and nice and looked in the camera.

And it was like a day-and-night difference

between the first one and that one.

He made a connection with you.

Maarten was attracting because he was an artist.

He likes music, playing music, making music.

He had curly hair. That was very nice.

Um, yeah, they were points that I really liked.

And then I responded on his, uh, profile.

He put it in brackets that his name was an alias.

After two emails, he said, "I use Maarten as an alias,

and my real name is Jonathan."

The person that spoke to me was Walter.

Then he replied to me with Jacob.

I phoned him, and, uh, all of a sudden I heard another name.

And that was Jonathan, and that was weird.

Because first time he was Walter, and then it was Jacob,

and then it was Jonathan.

He explained that Jonathan was his first name

and Jacob was his second name,

and Walter was just a fictive name.

Because of his sperm-donor life and his personal life,

he wanted to keep them separate.

It made total sense.

We texted. He was so easy to talk to.

Just the guy next door and, like, he could be a friend.

I wasn't looking for looks.

I wanted to have a donor who had the best interest for the donor child.

So it felt really good.

Of course, I googled him.

I looked him up, and I saw his YouTube channel.

Jonathan has a YouTube channel,

and he's posting, uh, videos, maybe two a week,

about his lifestyle and about his way of living, uh, and music.

He is just posting from beautiful places and beautiful hotels.

And he was very confident and happy in those videos.

Say hi to my, uh, video blog.

For the people that haven't seen my blogs before,

they're mostly about food, sports, educating yourself, learning new things.

We did think it was a little... a little bit peculiar.

He had a few videos about eating raw meat.

Today I'm eating raw beef.

We did joke about it afterwards, that he had some very weird habits,

but I guess you have to be a little bit unique to do this.

We arrived first.

And we were sitting, and we were waiting there,

and there was a concert pianist who was playing on... on a piano.

I was watching people coming and going,

and every man that came around the corner,

I was asking myself, "Well, is that him?"

And, "Yes, that's him."

"Okay, that's a good-looking guy. Jeez."

"Well, yeah, he could be the... the... the... the father of my child."

Jonathan came, and we introduced ourselves.

He looked exactly like he did in the pictures.

I thought he was an attractive guy.

He had curly hair. He had bright blue eyes.

Good set of teeth.

He looked good.

We were there early,

so we'd already sat down and ordered something to drink,

and then he walked in.

Over the dinner or lunch, you... you talk everything through,

um, to see if there's also this, uh, connection.

What did you notice about him?

-His hair. -His hair.

Immediately.

We really hoped that our kids have his hair.