{"id":304901,"date":"2024-01-10T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=304901"},"modified":"2024-01-09T17:40:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T23:40:22","slug":"dutch-gynecologist-believed-fathered-thousands-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dutch-gynecologist-believed-fathered-thousands-children\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOCK: Dutch gynecologist now believed to have fathered thousands of children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Previously, a Dutch hospital confirmed<\/a> that one of its gynecologists, Jan Karbaat, had been inseminating fertility patients with his own sperm, fathering 49 children. Over one year later, that number has skyrocketed to an alarming amount.<\/p>\n

Martijn van Halen is one of Karbaat’s children, and he originally had no knowledge of his conception. But as he told The Sun<\/a>, his father \u2014 the man who raised him \u2014 admitted he had been conceived using a sperm donor.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents always planned to tell me and my brother when I turned 18, but when I was 16, my mother died in a traffic accident,” he recalled. \u201cWe\u2019d just lost a parent and so he didn\u2019t tell us and life went on.\u201d But then one of his nephews was diagnosed with a genetic disability.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe doctors were asking, \u2018Are there any problems in your family?\u2019 Dad changed his mind. It was very difficult for him,” he said. \u201cFor us it was like a puzzle came together. I had always noticed something but didn’t know what. I don\u2019t look anything like him and we have very different viewpoints.\u201d<\/p>\n