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"speaker_name": "Mavoko, WDM – K",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Makau",
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"content": "pathetic conditions. Some of those children are not properly brought up, either because the operators of those childrenhomes do not have enough to feed the children or they do not have enough materials to make the children in those homes feel at home. I encourage Kenyans to adopt. We have seen dramas in this country where foreigners have had a chance to adopt. In one way or the other, there is a lapse in the law where we encourage foreigners to adopt our children and we do not know. One Member said that for one child who was adopted in Kenya, the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) had to send someone to see the conditions in which that child was living. It is high time that as a country we knew where adopted children go to. We have heard of babies being stolen and sold abroad. I support the fact that when a couple adopts a child, they should be given ample time, as Hon. Martha is proposing, of three months to bond. Given the background of some of these children, it is very important that you bond with the child particularly when they are young. A child grows in the environment and the love that is provided by the adoptees or parents. I support the amendment that the adoptee families are given three months. I also support Hon. Otiende’s proposal that men should not be discriminated against. Men and women are workingnowadays. If the mother goes for leave for three months and I go for three months, that child will get six months of proper care and bonding will even be stronger."
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