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    "id": 953094,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/953094/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kangundo, Muungano",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Fabian Muli",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13360,
        "legal_name": "Fabian Kyule Muli",
        "slug": "fabian-kyule-muli-2"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to contribute to this Bill. It is a very important Bill, especially for us fathers. Matters of adoption are very sensitive, not only in Kenya, but all over the world. It is a process where you remove a kid from his original lifestyle to another one. It is a life you are giving to mature people to live with that they have not given birth to. In the Kenyan society, there is a lot of economic frustration to a point where young mothers are even leaving their children in the streets. Fathers of today are not even ready to raise their kids. They leave their kids with mothers who are not able to take care of them. The children centres which take care of the less fortunate do not serve them to the point where we can say our young people are enjoying life. We are now being given the opportunity to process the adoption of kids. For one to get an adoption order, you should have stayed with the kid for three months consecutively. If you are working in Kenya, how will you stay with the child for three months consecutively, if for example you adopted a child of six weeks? If you adopt a child of six weeks, how will you stay with the child and yet you are still working? That is where I join and support the amendment by Martha and congratulate her for thinking about the bonding period. The bonding time in nature is not only for human beings but also for animals. This amendment will help the the new mother and father to understand the new child they have. Also, sometimes when you adopt a child you need to take a trip with the child, not only abroad but also to rural areas to visit the new culture that the child will be a part of. You are not only adopting a child from your culture, but you might even adopt a child who was born in another culture. That is why I support this Bill and congratulate Hon. Martha for coming up with it. I feel the motherhood she has and the fatherhood in the Bill."
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