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    "id": 953049,
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    "speaker_name": "Baringo CWR, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladwell Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Gladwell Jesire Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill by Hon. Martha Wangari. It is important to notice that adoption is real. There are people in this country who are in fear of adopting children just because they will not get enough time to bond with the children, take care of them and learn them. So, it becomes hard for them to go to the homes where children are kept and need the favour to be adopted. It is a well thought out Bill. We need to give people who have the will to adopt children time - called adoptive leave in this Bill - so that they can have time with their children that is acceptable for other mothers in this country. Once you adopt a child, you will definitely become a father and a mother. Even if you are not the biological father or mother, at that moment, you will be the mother and father of the child. It is important that the length of time is considered, so that it is not discriminative. This is adoption and it should not be given a shorter leave from that of birth. When you adopt children, you do not know them. You are supposed to sit with them and have enough time to bond with them, learn them and budget for them. So, if this Bill goes through, the people who are willing to adopt children and have the fear of not getting enough time to bond with them, will have a longer period of bonding. Also, they will be free to adopt children. It is important to know that most people who adopt children could be parents who have stayed for long without getting children or they have never been blessed with one. They could also be those, who after some time, have thought that they cannot sire one more child and they adopt one. You will realise that such people do not have skills of bringing up a baby. So, they need time to learn. They can only learn when they have the baby with them. I am pleased and I am going to support this Bill fully, so that parents who adopt children can get enough time to bond with the children. By the time they get back to work, they will have learnt their babies and the babies will have learnt the parents. They will ensure that they bond and stay together well. I beg to support. It is a well thought out Bill. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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