Netflix’s The Man with 1000 Kids three-part docuseries shares similarities with another Netflix account of fertility fraud, but each project focuses on separate cases that differ slightly in how extreme they are. That being said, both scenarios being covered involve abhorrent behavior from each documentary’s respective subject. The shocking reveals in The Man with 1000 Kids are just as upsetting as those in another Netflix project but on a much larger scale.

The figure in the most recent of the two documentaries receives a fitting punishment for his actions, and despite the harrowing subject matter, The Man with 1000 Kids is one of the best documentaries on Netflix right now. The show’s comparisons to another fertility fraud project on Netflix aren’t direct, but it’s impossible to deny the two share far more than a surface connection.

Netflix’s The Man With 1000 Kids Is Very Similar To 2022’s Our Father Documentary

Our Father also addresses a case of mass fertility fraud

The Man with 1000 Kids tells the shocking story of a single sperm donor’s goal to spread his genetics as far as humanly possible. The Dutch national, named Jonathan Jacob Meijer, takes his underhanded scheme worldwide, misleading vulnerable mothers-to-be and navigating various donation regulations that do or don’t exist across the globe. The show brings to mind 2022’s Our Father, which shares the story of other betrayed women who birthed a child without having all the salient information.

The subject of Our Father is a now-former fertility doctor named Donald Cline, who would swap out intended sperm samples with one of his own. The fact that Cline was in a sanctioned position of trust arguably makes his actions worse than Meijer’s, although what both men did was still entirely unforgivable. Both Cline and Meijer deceived in their own nefarious ways and also brought countless innocent children into the world under false pretenses.

Why Netflix’s The Man 1000 Kids Is Scarier Than Our Father

Meijer’s actions could have global ramifications

There’s no denying that Our Father perfectly highlights the darkness of Donald Cline’s actions, as the former doctor abused the trust placed in him by so many people. In addition, being responsible for so many genetic half-siblings in the same area of the country raises huge risks concerning things like in-breeding in the future. However, Jonathan Jacob Meijer essentially does what Cline did, but on a terrifyingly larger scale.

Not only does Meijer massively increase the planet-wide risk of consanguinity, but he does it while not really breaking any laws. The horrifying realization of how little regulation there is in place to stop men like Meijer is one of the biggest takeaways from the Netflix docuseries. While Cline received very little punishment for what he did, at least relevant laws were already in place. It took a bespoke punishment and unprecedented legal intervention to thwart Meijer, and The Man with 1000 Kids suggests there isn’t a shortage of other mass donors.