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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mutunga",
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this Bill by Hon. Martha Wangari. The relationship between a child and parents is built at a very tender age. The age below a year is when a child requires to know who the parents are and to feel the parents’ presence. If parents are given the opportunity to stay home with their child around this time, they will definitely build a relationship between the child and themselves. They will first of all understand the child and the child will also understand and know them. It is a process of unlearning and learning because the child will have been used to some other different people, namely, their biological parents. They will have been used to different hands. There is need, therefore, to concentrate and learning is about emphasis. At this stage of brain development, a lot of emphasis creates assurance. This is what is needed at this particular stage. I find the Bill very relevant and it is necessary that we approve it. So, I support it. In the creation of a family unit, there is need for both parents to stay with their children. During maternity leave, the parent stays with her child and gets to know how to handle and manage the child. Let us say the adopting parents have not had or handled children before, they will need time to go through the process of managing the child. That is why it is necessary for us to create this particular time for them. It is not necessarily true that people who have not been gifted with children should be the ones we are talking about here. It is anybody who would like to adopt a child. It is becoming a reality today that it is necessary for parents who are of child- bearing age to adopt children. I am looking at a situation where there are other children in the house and, therefore, the need for the entire family to be together to build the bonds that are necessary, so that the older or the biological children will also have time to create a relationship with the adopted child and be able to treat them as their sibling. I find the Bill very relevant. Therefore, I support."
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