Mammismo?! Hey Antonio -- Say it ain't true!

[Guest ratchethack]

EEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHMMMMMM??????!!!!!

 

Italian mammas making offers their sons can't refuse

 

Donald MacLeod

Friday February 3, 2006

Guardian Unlimited

 

Eight out of ten Italian men aged 18 to 30 live with their parents.

 

And you thought good Italian boys stay at home because they love mamma? Not according to two economists who today announced to a baffled world that it's really to do with the "endogeneity of parental income" or, more crudely, parental bribery.

 

Whether or not it's more to do with money and power than a supply of good pasta, the economic effects of "mammismo" in Italy are striking.

 

Eight out of 10 Italian men aged 18 to 30 live with their parents compared to one in five in the UK and one in four in the US, note Marco Manacorda, of Queen Mary, University of London, and Enrico Moretti, of the University of California, Berkeley.

 

Photograph: Getty

[antonio carroccio]

Héy Ratch, you better watch it! Don't mess with mamma's!!!

Even the Italiaan one...

[Alex-Corsa]

Héy Ratch, you better watch it! Don't mess with mamma's!!!

Even the Italiaan one...

 

My support on this Antonio, Some "cold ass" nordic "statisticers"

Perhaps will never know why the "Mama" and "Woman" carry such holy meanings among US meditereneans

And how they define the meanings of birth and life itself

You know what I mean