Man Offers $20 An Hour ‘Rent A Daddy’ Service For Kids With Deadbeat Dads

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.

  1. 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!
  2. 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.”
  3. 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.
  4. 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!
  5. 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!
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