"Mammoni" | 60 Minutes Archive

I moved home to my mother in my 40s, we are more like friends. I was renting and she was living alone with not much extra money. Now we are company for each other, she has more money for herself. I cook and we have great fun. Her health is not great and i can help her, plus it helps with loneliness. I love her more than anything in the world xx Look after your parents we don't have them forever xx

I have a cousin who still lives with his parents (both alive) and he's now 53yrs old, single, overweight, dropout, uses his moms car, and has no future goals. But he's really happy and I can't judge him as a person. He definitely a wonderful person taking care of his parents and still helping others outside his home. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

We had a tight family. Some of us stayed with our parents and took care of them. Both of them loved that we were living with them and helped them out. When they got sick, we would take them to the doctor and stayed by their side until they passed away. We helped with the bills and did errands when needed.

I can see why Italy’s fertility rate is so low. Being with a guy who won’t even bother to make his own bed or do his own laundry doesn’t exactly make the ladies knock down his door.

This report fails to survey the 'mammoni's' sisters. A worthwhile sequel / counterpoint.

Yes, his mother's taking care of him however, you will never find her in a nursing home at the end!!!❤

I lived with a first generation Sicilian -American man for ten years and he was the exact opposite of these guys! He loved to cook, we shared all household chores. What a change one generation can make…in America! ☺️☺️☺️☺️ His father was just like these mamma’s boys!

Happy Mother’s Day!!

I'm an Anglo American but after watching this I must be Italian My 36 year old son lives with us and I would never kick him out

This is also common in the Greek community . We don’t want our children to leave home

I......kind of envy this lifestyle....very interesting....today in our country many people are suffering.... emotionally....

They know how to be independent, they just don't want to, they love their family, girls are treated just the same.

Everybody love Raymond is no joke ❤😂

This happens in other countries as well, mostly Southern European. I live in Greece and our vet is in his mid-fifties, still living at home with his parents. I asked him once if he never felt like he wanted his own space, his own house. He said emphatically, “no”., I will leave when I marry! I know his family well and his mother has even asked me to find him a wife, she has had enough of cooking & cleaning for him! Of course, when the economic crisis hit in 2010 many young people moved back home but never left once their jobs returned. Ironically, it is the young women here who want to leave and many buy their own flats. Then their boyfriends move in with them and the cycle begins again.

I hope they are giving plenty of money to the parents ❤

there are a couple of things -- first of all, for an Italian to rent an apartment is difficult because there a so many laws protecting the tenant from eviction that the landlord is reluctant to rent the place for fear of never being able to get a bad tenant to leave. Secondly, if you move out from your family home, Italians think there must be something wrong with you - you must be a drug addict, a psycho etc. - because even your family can't stand you. There is one thing I have noticed in Italian families that is different to mine, the Italian parents are very involved in their children's lives but somehow do not constrict them. The children come and go as they please, travel, have romances etc... with little comment from the parents. I feel, in the same situation, my parents would be overbearing and judgmental and would be treating me as if I was still a teenager and I would be scolded for staying out too late and treating this place "like a hotel" (I heard that a lot).

That was a good story.

This family centric lifestyle has so much value compared to individuality, that has proven downsides in American culture. As 71 yr old retired career woman/wife, the path was extremely difficult & far too much work & not enough joy!

I feel like empty nest syndrome ages you faster. At least the elders have a continued purpose. Everybody yearns for mama and papa let ‘em enjoy it

How I wish I was born in Italy! I had 3 American girlfriends who felt insulted to the core if I dared ask them to do the simplest thing for me . These are not life partner material, sorry to say .