An Australian man is offering a “Rent A Daddy” service for $20 an hour for kids with deadbeat dads. Jake Orr, who works as a trucker, posted his tongue-in-cheek advertisement via Facebook, where he revealed that for a reasonable rate, he’ll do all the things that good fathers do with kids including daycare dropoffs and pickups and sporting event attendance.
- Jake clearly saw a gap in the market. “Has your baby daddy been acting up? Tired of him playing games? Does he put drugs and his mates before his kids? Get yourself a rent a daddy!!” Jake begins his jokey job listing. I’m sure some moms’ ears were already perking up at just reading that!
- The rental includes some pretty great perks. In addition to the daycare dropoff and pickups and the sports matches he’ll attend, the one to two weekends a month Jake is available can also include instructional learning for things like mowing the lawn and car maintenance as well as “up to 3 activities of the kids [sic] choice.”
- He even offers some add-on services! Jake is quick to insist that the basic $20 ($30 AUD) rental fee includes the above, Rent a Daddy users will have to pay extra for things like birthday parties and other family events, Facebook relationship status updates, and family selfies. He also adds a 20% surcharge for Sundays after 4 p.m. and Sunday night dinner dates.
- Jake accepts all types of payment. In case you don’t have cash handy when it comes time to settle your Rent A Daddy bill, Jake says in the ad that he accepts debit cards, Afterpay, and Zip Pay. It’s good to have choices!
- Sadly, Jake isn’t really offering this service. While many were tagging interested friends on Jake’s Facebook post, Jake later admitted that he’s not really looking to run a Rent a Daddy service as he’s a dad himself who doesn’t really have the bandwidth to take on the added responsibility, as tempting as it might be. “Quite a few people have told me ‘you might be on to something’ and it did get me thinking but it’s not something I really want to go through,” he said according to the Mirror. “I’ve got two little boys of my own, so I would be perfectly suited.” Ah well!