Today, 37 percent of men age thirty have never lived away from home

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Hi

Marrying a man from Italy!

In Italy, the culture of “mammismo” or mamma’s boys, is widely accepted – today, 37 percent of men age thirty have never lived away from home.

It's not really for the sake of just living at home . . . it's assumed (in the region my Fiance is from) that you have to pay for a wedding, a home, furnishings, etc. etc. That's a good reason to live at home for a few years - to establish yourself. No my fiance he basically never came back home after his mandatory military service and neither did his older brother. Younger brother graduated from University, no jobs, so he went to Germany after living at home for a year. But the Calabrese culture tends to look down upon mammoni's in general . . .


Keep in mind, his younger brother is 37 this this year (not married), older brother married at 36, and my fiance will be turning 43 in May. So marriage for single men tends to happen much later there and has for many years. His mom was 17 when she married his father who was 27.