A man desperate for an heir has sent 200 flyers to potential surrogate mothers in his local area because his 74-year-old girlfriend cannot bear him children.
The unusual note appeared in letterboxes across north Canberra neighbourhoods last week and detailed the man’s bizarre parenting plan.
The author, 32, who claims he has already received two offers, wrote in the flyer he ‘requires an heir’, and offered to pay the surrogate mother for her trouble.
The man asks for only five days of parental custody per year and asks that it be over the Christmas break so he can ‘take it easy at home’ with his heir.
The 32-year-old Ngunnawal man sent 200 flyers to addresses across north Canberra in a bid to find a potential surrogate mother
The flyer offers potential surrogate mothers two options for conceiving the baby, ‘manual transfer of semen or sex as per her preference’.
The man said he decided to create the posters after many unsuccessful stints on dating apps Tinder and Bumble as well as co-parenting app ‘Just a Baby’.
‘But nothing is as effective as putting out a flyer,’ the anonymous man told 7NEWS.
The agreement asks the woman carrying his child to be between the ages of 18-26, and her mother aged between the ages of 35-50.
The man outlined his unusual parenting expectations in the flyer (pictured), reiterating that the ‘bottom line’ is that he ‘requires an heir’
The man explains the age restrictions are to provide optimal health outcomes and ‘ensure the survival of the child’.
In a ‘legally binding’ document drawn up by the man’s lawyers, he promises all rights and responsibilities will go to the mother, but she will not receive child support.
However the man promises his heir will have a ‘safe financial future’ and will inherit his paternal fathers and grandfathers estate following his death.
To sweeten the deal, he offers a one-off $5,000 payment to the mother and asks that applications be sent exclusively from north Canberra addresses.
He explains that this is for the benefit of ‘shared parenting arrangements’.
The man said he has already corresponded with two people in the area who seem ‘genuinely interested’ in his offer.
The man offered to pay the potential surrogate an one-off payment of $5000, and made it clear the mother would receive no child support
The 32-year-old said he has to reject a 19-year-old girl because he considered her 14-year-old sister a dependent.
‘The reason for no other dependents is because I want my child to have plenty of attention and to not have to compete for attention,’ he explained.
And while the man may be childless, he admitted he was currently pursuing a romance with a 74-year-old widow, who unfortunately cannot bear him a child.
It was the couple’s large age gap that propelled the man to send the posters to find his perfect surrogate mother.
One Canberra woman took to a local Facebook group to share her confusion after receiving the unusual note on Sunday afternoon.
Her post was swarmed by angry social media users who described the note as ‘creepy’, with some even reporting it to local police.
‘This is disgusting, so creepy and just awful,’ one user commented.
‘Who said romance was dead?’ another joked.
Local Canberra police are currently investigating if the man committed an offence in the letter by offering a cash payment for surrogacy
‘Not even any child support? One off payment of $5,000? Man, sounds like a s*** deal. 18 years and 9 months of your life for some jerk-off to get what he wants. Clearly this guy does NOT know how to bargain’, a third shared.
Local police are currently investigating if the man committed an offence in his desperate plea for surrogacy.
‘ACT Policing is aware of unaddressed letters requesting surrogacy services for an “heir” left in letterboxes in north Canberra suburbs,’ a police spokesperson said.
‘The contents are distasteful and the offer of a cash payment for surrogacy may be an offence.
‘We expect that anyone who receives such a letter would place it in their recycling bin.’