Italian parents fail son

[dead0man]

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They failed him by not kicking him out of the house 20+ years ago.  If you have the ability wash your own clothes and your mom does it for you for free, you are failing as a human.  Period.  It doesn't matter if you are 15 or 41.

[bullmoose88]

Hmm...I don't think Terry Bradshaw knows English well enough...let alone Italian...to do the movie.

[memphis]

It depends. Maybe he's paying all the bills, but mom's doing the domestic stuff. There's nothing wrong with division of labor. Of course, like most arrangments involving more than one person, it has to be consensual all around.

[TJ in Oregon]

This sounds like something I saw on Dr. Phil when I was in Canada few weeks ago. Parents are trying to befriend their kids and still get them to grow up.

[angus]

Mama mia!

[opebo]

The media loves to present these Calvinist stories decrying 'laziness', but the reality of the situation is that the vast majority of persons over 25 living with their parents are there because of social conditions imposed by the capitalist economic system - lack of employment, or employment only sporadically or at below-subsistence wages, lack of health care, lack of a proper welfare state, etc.

Of course, it is true that for working class persons to reproduce in a capitalist society is utter madness, so it is hard to sympathize with the parents who complain their progeny are struggling. 

[dead0man]

There is nothing inherently wrong with living with your parents well into adulthood, but if you are any kind of hassle to them at all or you're not at least chipping in when you can you are a douchebag and it's your parents fault for not setting some ground rules (or not sticking to those ground rules).

[John Dibble]

The Venetian parents, who have not been named, say their son has a job but refuses to leave home and wants his clothes washed and his meals prepared.

<sexism>So I take it he hasn't heard of this thing called a "wife"?</sexism>