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Italy has always been famous for its adult mammoni, or mama's boys. But perhaps the umbilical cord has finally been stretched too far. A recent report says that seven out of 10 unmarried Italian men over the age of 35 still live at home; in Europe's next most coddling country, Germany, 50 percent don't have the heart to leave. In Italy, even the married ones still return home for lunch and laundry services. And living under maternal control for too long not only damages the self-esteem and sex lives of young men, it often hampers everything from career decisions to their ability to be successful husbands, according to another study by the European University Institute in Florence.
The causes are easier to find than the solution. Young men often have to attend university programs for up to seven years before they set off on their own, and in any case ...