The bill also extends to those people who are seeking to adopt a child, and parents having a baby through surrogacy. For those prospective parents, there would've been considerable planning and emotional investment in a pregnancy. Many may not have been able to have children themselves, so their grief is intensified by the loss that they could not themselves carry. It is only fair and it is only right that those who had intended to become parents through surrogacy or through adoption should be entitled to bereavement leave in the same event of miscarriage or stillbirth. The bill has also been extended so that the leave provisions apply to a former spouse or partner of the mother if they are the biological parent. At times of stress or change, breakups can happen, but that in no way diminishes the grief felt by both biological parents at the unexpected end of a pregnancy. In fact, it can often exacerbate it.