Baby Bonus

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5
Mar
2008

India To Pay Cash For Women To Have Daughters

In an effort to stem the number of abortions happening in their country, the Indian government plans to give cash incentives to the families of baby girls.
Staggered payments would be made to families to “encourage them for better upbringing of girl child and to educate her”, women and child development minister Renuka Chowdhury [...]

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17
Sep
2007

Australian Senator Proposes $10,000 Baby Bonus For 3rd Baby

I covered the pre-story to this one a few months back. Australia is having problems with their population. They have a low birthrate so they currently offer new moms $4133 cash for having a baby(single or married).
This was an issue because moms were having the babies, receiving the cash and then handing the babies [...]

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