Big babies who just won’t fly the nest

Italian parents have been dealt a blow by the courts in their battles with the “bamboccioni”, the big babies who won't leave home.

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Apart from starving them, just how do you get rid of "Kippers"?

Daily Mail columnist Tom Utley says that his heart "burst with fellow feeling" for the Italian father, a struggling writer, who took his 28-year-old son to court in the hope of forcing him to get a job. The father was unsuccessful, as you may have read. A judge ordered him to carry on supporting his stay-at-home son.

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