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Sunday Times: Novelist Ece Temelkuran on Why She 'Adopts' Daughters

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Sunday Times: Novelist Ece Temelkuran on Why She 'Adopts' Daughters

'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...'