Article Reflection- At home with mamma

Italian boys love their mothers much. Even middle-aged males love to stay with their mums. In this article, author clearly explains this situation, and backs her up ideas with research results. As the writer mentioned in the article, Italian mother gives her boys too much affection. She tries to make foods all the time, washes boys’ clothes, treats them like a baby just for the sake of her love towards her boys. All around the world, 18-year-old boys and girls leave their homes and start a new life easily. In most of the European countries, teenagers want to leave home to gain his/her freedom and their parents do not react too much for this leaving. But in Italy, this is different. Italian family generally does not accept leaving home early or working while studying at university. Family constitution in Italy needs to be together with whole family. They say ‘We are happy together, we do not need more money from children wanting to work. We are not needy.’ The Italian mother talks about these and does whatever they can do for her boy. She wants them happy to be happy. An Italian quote says ‘Amor di madre, amore senza limiti.’ ‘A mother’s love has no limit.’ She has no limit. She does not know where to stop. She does everything and makes his boy dependent on her. Then the time comes and boys get married. The house gets just two women but too many. Wives become in the second place after the mamma. Boy loves his mother more than his wife and this causes divorces. Nothing can stop the mamma. She is the secret family boss, to me. Shortly, Italian family is an unshakable constitution. You can never take them apart.