Choosy, big babies, mammons. The Istat 2016 report published today confirms the all-Italian tradition according to which many young people continue to live in the family up to the age of thirty
In fact, according to the report, 70,1% of young people between the ages of 25 and 29 still live with their mum and dad. The girls are more "enterprising", the percentage of which, in the same age group, drops to 54,7%. What pushes young Italian women to leave the family home is no longer marriage, as happened in previous decades, but study. Looking at the data relating to marriages, it is difficult to have doubts: in 2015 there were 41 fewer brides between the ages of 18 and 30, while the average age at which the big step is taken is increasingly higher: 34,3 years for men , 31,3 for women.
The report also confirms other trends that have been the protagonists in recent years: the birth rate has set a new negative record with 488.000 births in 2015, 15.000 fewer than in 2014, while the number of families in which only women work is rising , from 7,2% in 2004 to 10,7% in 2015.
Going back to the birth rate, foreigners living in our country have contributed to raising the data: between 1993 and 2014, 971.000 children were born in Italy to foreign parents.
