'You collect your own family of talented young women. The author (Women Who Blow on Knots) and political commentator on why everyone should "adopt" a daughter'.
'There are surveys that call my age group “the childless generation”. I am 43 years old — a fact I remind myself of when I am tempted to buy ripped jeans — and, like many of my friends, I am childless. But the world is still a place where it is common to ask why you did not have children and whether you regret it. The planet still sees our situation as “curable”, I guess. But one thing is sure: if one does not have a child, one always stays someone’s child and never officially becomes an adult.'
'So in order to become an adult, I have adopted several “daughters” over the past decade...'
