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"speaker_name": "North Imenti, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to congratulate Hon. Martha Wangari for bringing this Bill. I believe it is important that we give people who adopt young children of less than one year leave so that when they adopt, they can bond with them. At the moment, there is nothing like that. Even though adopting parents do not give birth to babies, it is important that when they adopt, the babies get a place to stay and bond with them. That is the only time they can bond. I wish the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare had agreed that the leave will be three months like for mothers who give birth. Nonetheless, one month is still good enough, so that both parents, the man and the woman can, at least, bond with the child. If this Bill is enacted to an Act of Parliament, we will get many children out of the children’s homes where they do not get fatherly and motherly care. We will have more adoptions done. That way, babies will grow up better. That is the way to go. Thank you."
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