How would you like to be paid to have children? It's been widely reported that industrialized "first-world" countries have dwindling birth rates. In large part it is because people are purposely choosing not to have children. This has become such a major concern in Japan that some of its companies have taken "drastic" measures. Koei Tecmo, the company responsible for the Dead or Alive video game series, Ninja Gaiden, and other awesome game, is paying their employees bonuses for having children!
First Child - around $1,000
Second Child - around $2,000
Third Child - around $20,000
I saw that with my two, and I thought, "Nah, my wife would not go for the third!" Still almost makes me wanna move to Japan. I got this information form G4TV.