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In Italy, a Mamma Accused of Doting Too Much
time.com ^ | Oct. 21, 2009 | Jeff Israely

Posted on 10/21/2009 12:51:41 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

According to the evidence presented by prosecutors, Luca was not allowed to play with other children, go to church, participate in sports or leave the house before or after school. The boy's teachers said he was sent to school with his snacks already cut into bite-size portions for him. Investigators say the teachers noticed that he was both physically and psychologically stunted from such around-the-clock doting. "He didn't know how to run. He had the motor skills of a 3-year-old child," Andrew Marzola, the lawyer representing the boy, told the Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: childrearing; italy; mothering
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1 posted on 10/21/2009 12:51:41 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Interesting.


2 posted on 10/21/2009 12:54:25 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Actually I think Mommie Dearest is a controlling, cult like psycho who needs to have her kid given to a healthy family.


3 posted on 10/21/2009 12:58:46 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

These kind of parents exist in America too.


4 posted on 10/21/2009 12:58:46 PM PDT by BertWheeler (Dance and the World Dances With You!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This is a whole lot more than “doting”. The woman has emotional issues.


5 posted on 10/21/2009 1:02:13 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“According to a survey published last year in Psychology Today, a full 37% of men from the ages of 30 to 34 still live with their mothers in Italy”


6 posted on 10/21/2009 1:02:22 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Niuhuru; MEGoody

It wasn’t just the mother. It was the grandparents, too


7 posted on 10/21/2009 1:03:28 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

What nutcases.


8 posted on 10/21/2009 1:04:44 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Very interesting article. I wonder though if there isn’t more to the story. Is the boy delayed because of a physical problem he has? Alot of parents are more protective of children with disabilities. Reserving judgement.


9 posted on 10/21/2009 1:09:21 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (Best thing about Cash for Clunkers is that 90% of the Obama bumper stickers are now off the road.)
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To: nuconvert

Do they “live with their mothers” in their parents’ house, having never left home, or do they have their own homes and care for their elderly parents?


10 posted on 10/21/2009 1:09:42 PM PDT by Tax-chick (There is no "I" in "Tejano conjunto." It's all about the mission.)
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3

You would be surprised to find out how many boys show up at my wife’s preschool expecting a woman to pull down their pants and hold their dick for them while they pee.


11 posted on 10/21/2009 1:13:01 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Tax-chick

“Do they “live with their mothers” in their parents’ house, having never left home, or do they have their own homes and care for their elderly parents?”

“still live with their mothers”

I think the word “still” is the important one there.


12 posted on 10/21/2009 1:13:05 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3

The case has been through the court and found guilty but there is an appeal still pending.


13 posted on 10/21/2009 1:13:31 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: AppyPappy

Wow I have no words!


14 posted on 10/21/2009 1:15:47 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (Best thing about Cash for Clunkers is that 90% of the Obama bumper stickers are now off the road.)
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To: Tax-chick

They don’t leave home. Many don’t have jobs, or at least “adult” jobs. They stay at home because it is not manly to cook or clean or do laundry and so until they find a wife, that is mamma’s job.

That culture has infected the U.S. in many places as well.

I just can’t grasp that, when I was 18, I wanted out!


15 posted on 10/21/2009 1:20:10 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: AppyPappy

I’d take two-thirds of that action!


16 posted on 10/21/2009 1:23:50 PM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Tax-chick

Lots of them still live with their mothers in their mothers’ homes, with or without a father. Never grew up and established their own households. Can’t even conceive of having children of their own, because they can’t imagine who would take care of them (there being a severe shortage of women interested in marrying this sort of guy).


17 posted on 10/21/2009 1:31:19 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I realized that.

A friend came very close to losing her 4 children. Her daughter was carrying the baby brother and accidentally hit his head on the corner of a cabinet. The boy (age 2) cried a little but seemed fine. Over the next few weeks he reverted back to baby habits and lost his speech. She took him to the doctor and he had a severely fractured skull. The doctor called CPS because the injury was old. It looked seriously bad for my friend and her husband.

My friend found another doctor who diagnosed her son with a slight case of congenital analgia (he wasn’t very sensitive to pain). His head was severely injured but he didn’t know it and so neither did his parents.

Sometimes things that look bad on the outside looking in, may not be what you think they are. I was just wondering if anyone investigated his physical conditon to see if there was an underlying cause. She may be guilty or she may just look guilty.


18 posted on 10/21/2009 1:31:46 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (Best thing about Cash for Clunkers is that 90% of the Obama bumper stickers are now off the road.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Luka
19 posted on 10/21/2009 1:32:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nuconvert

“According to a survey published last year in Psychology Today, a full 37% of men from the ages of 30 to 34 still live with their mothers in Italy”

Because they are too poor to live on their own?


20 posted on 10/21/2009 1:50:43 PM PDT by Mister Fleas
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