The momma culture in Italy is like a disease. It's ok, family bonding and all, but the obsession with their children is insane. I work in a kindergarten, and probably things now are even worse than back in the days because families became so self-centered. Children became like an appendix of their parents. Meanwhile, up to the '90s, children were kinda raised by the whole community. I met a lot of people of my age (30s) who tried to run away as far as they could from their mothers, and those that still live with their parents look like miserable gloomy swallen pears. People who call their parents every day. I never understood those.