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    "content": "dropping their children to what we call social joints and monitoring them. Parents stay in the car while their children have fun. I really wonder why we are having teenage parents. As we think that these practices are only rampant in places where bedrooms are separated by bed sheets or cardboards – where as described by one famous author; - you can hearyour neighbour thinking – the situation is much worse with persons who are said to be “able.” Parents who are well-to-do are facilitating their children to have vehicles, some of which are “souped up” cars that are very nice. These children have very nice phones too. Some parents offer their children television sets and very advanced telephones. Therefore, I am being cautious as I support this Motion because I know it will create a problem. The problem will be that we will have recognised a practice that we, as parents, should not recognise. It is an aberration for people of this category who should either be in form one, two, three or four to have families. What do they know about families other than the fact that they had what is referred to as “carnal knowledge” of each other? There is nothing good about this discussion. It is a discussion that we should hold quietly. However, if you look at the Constitution, you will see that as we attempted to recognise families; under Article 45(4), Parliament is only supposed to enact legislation on marriage. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the protection of families under Article 45(1) is not given an avenue for legislation. Therefore, as Sen. Ongoro supports this amendment to the Constitution in some form, I think that one of the things we must do is to find a method of protecting this fundamental unit of society under Article 45(1) through legislation. I do not agree with Sen. G.G. Kariuki that the Constitution is not supposed to have everything. The basis of any society is law. Otherwise, as Hobbes stated; “a state without law is nasty, brutish and life is nasty, brutish and short.” Therefore, we must go back to the basics unless we want to live in the jungle where we all left a long time ago. The position taken by the Mover of this Motion should be supported by more legislation. I would like to see, apart from capacity building and necessary legal framework and funding, civic education included in our curriculum to say that there is nothing called teenage families. This is an aberration. We must go back to basics and do this in class during the day with our eyes open and tell teenagers that it is not acceptable for them to leave school and start families with young men simply because it appears to be fashionable. We, as a society, must say that it is not fashionable. It is an aberration and against religion and good order for children to have children and for them to become mothers, grandmothers and grandfathers. We have defined who a child is. In saying that a teenager should be given recognition as a family under Article 45 is at a very bad corner of my legal training or even moral training. It is not right and cannot be right. I support the Motion and say that although we want to start a welfare state, it is fair that we give an exception. Recently, in Western Kenya, a lady gave birth and the father of the child was the father of that girl. It is a taboo for that child to live. In fact, they wanted to kill the child. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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