How much do you love your mama? Probably not as much as Italian men.

So, young man, you love your mama? Well, Italian men love their mamas more than anyone!

This is what the government in Italy has discovered and they want to reverse the trend.

The Daily Telegraph reports that 8 out of 10 Italians aged under 30 still live at home and that the average age of moving out is 36. THE AVERAGE! Not the minimum or the maximum - THE AVERAGE! This means that there must be men who live at home with their parents until they are 40 years old or more!

So the Italian government will now give tax breaks for men who leave home early. Why? Because staying at home with mommy may be good for your selfish, infantile ego, but it ain't good for the economy.

One Italian man, television quiz show host (this means not poor, i.e. having enough dough to live on his own) is quoted by saying that the reason he's living with his parents at the age of 42 and with his girlfriend is because he "never felt the need to leave" and because "he loves them".

So, next time you tell your mom you love her, think again - do you really? Then what are you doing actually moving out, renting or owning a home, having a wife and kids and all that comes with it?

George Bakalov

A Bulgarian man who's been living on his own since he was 18 years old, got married at 22 , had his first child at 24 and has little sympathy or understanding for big mama's boys, regardless of their country of origin or residence.