To home with love: one-third of italian adults live with parents

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One-third of Italian adults still live with their parents, according to new research.

The survey, published by Coldiretti and Censis on Wednesday, shows that the UK is not the only country feeling the financial squeeze, with a growing number of bamboccioni (big babies) living with their parents, even up to the age of 29.

The highest proportion of stay-at-home adults was in the 16 to 29 year old age bracket, reports the guardian, where unemployment is an increasingly common problem. As a result 60.7 per cent of them live at home, compared to 25.3 per cent of 30 to 44 year olds and just 11.8 per cent of 45 to 64 year olds.

As the financially-challenged  adults grow older, the reason for staying at home changes, with older parents requiring care and attention, but even for those who flee the nest, family ties are hard to break: out of all those living in their own accommodation, 54 per cent said that they were still living within a 30-minute walk of their close relatives.

"The solidarity between generations on which the Italian family is founded is a winning model for living and staying well together," commented Coldiretti President Sergio Marini.