Almost every society in the world does literally pay money to mothers in the form of mandatory paid maternity leave. The only exceptions are the United States,

Almost every society in the world does literally pay money to mothers in the form of mandatory paid maternity leave. The only exceptions are the United States, Papua New Guinea, and a few island countries in the Pacific Ocean (namely the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Tonga), every other country in the world, no matter how poor they might be, do pay money to mothers.