{"id":953122,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/953122/?format=json","text_counter":152,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Molo, JP","speaker_title":"Hon. Kuria Kimani","speaker":{"id":13435,"legal_name":"Francis Kuria Kimani","slug":"francis-kuria-kimani"},"content":"The issue of how long and whether it isaman or a woman adopting a kid, we have come of age as a country. It is not just mothers or women who can adopt children. Fathers, too, can do so. A man can adopt a kid. I expect that this Bill realises that that kid as adopted by either the father or the mother gets the same right of spending that time with the parents. I will go with the proposal by Hon. Martha – of three months. When a kid is adopted by a couple, then I would propose just like it is given to parents who biologically give birth, where a mother is given three months maternity leave, so should the same time be given to that mother in a couple set up that adopts a kid. The mother should get three months and the father would get two weeks, which is hardly enough. Without further remarks, I would like to congratulate Hon. Martha Wangari for this great Bill. Let us take care of our children because the kind of society we have is a reflection of what we have in the smallest unit of a country called a family."}