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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support the Bill, the Care and Protection of Child Parents Bill (Senate Bills No. 11 of 2019) that has been moved by my colleague, Sen. Kwamboka. I have gone through this Bill and it is a very comprehensive Bill. I hope that my colleague will take in the proposals that we shall give. I applaud her for coming up with this Bill. This Bill has come at a time when teenage pregnancy is alarming. In Kakamega County, where I come from, about one in five girls aged 15 to 19 years have begun childbearing. This shows us that our society is becoming irresponsible. This Bill gives a lot of emphasis on how the children and the parents need to be taken care of. It also looks at the equipment and how the institutions are supposed to be established. It is important to note that the responsibility of a family remains the same. The teenage girls, who are getting these children, need to be taken care of just like any other child in the society. The women leaders are discussing ways of re-admitting these girls back in school and we are supportive of it. We do not only need to re-admit them back to school, but we need to take care of them because some of those pregnancies happen by accident. Most of the children who get themselves in these situations do so through accidents or not knowing what they are involved in, hence re-admission is very important. We look at the issue of pregnancy which is just a matter of a period in time, especially in terms of months. When we say that this programme or this particular framework that takes care of these teenagers who wish to go back to school should be The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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