This can only be taken 20 or more weeks after the child's birth or placement for adoption, and once the mother has returned to work from statutory maternity or adoption leave or ended her entitlement.

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Its adoption would leave intact unnecessary, costly constraints on the use of the most precise and predictable technology to develop products that are critical to progress and especially to sustainability in agriculture.

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White children are three times more likely to leave care through adoption than those from ethnic minorities, the government says.

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Credit Suisse, for example, offers employee fathers up to 12 weeks paid paternity leave following childbirth or adoption.

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Some parents can take time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, which guarantees eligible employees at companies with more than 50 employees 12 weeks of unpaid, job-guaranteed leave for the birth or adoption of a child, according to Catalyst.

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Mr Olmert himself recently announced, soon after his decision to leave office amid corruption allegations, his wholehearted adoption of the broad package described above.

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