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NYT Schott's Vocab has a blurb referencing the Mainichi Daily News (Japan). Tamaki Saito, Japanese psychiatrist, wrote about why more young people (20s & 30s) are living with their parents. Schott noticed the words he collected from around the world to label these people. They're the NEETs – not in education, employment or training, and eventually become hikikomori, shut-ins. (He advocates that Japan, having led the world in developing hikikomori, lead the world in developing the way out of this "social pathology".)

Schott quotes this part of Saito:"
“For example, in the U.K., such young people are called ‘KIPPERS,' an acronym for ‘kids in parents' pockets eroding retirement savings.' In Canada, there's ‘boomerang,' referring to children who return to the nest, and in the U.S., ‘twixters' are young adults who are caught ‘betwixt' adolescence and adulthood. There are ‘nesthockers,' or nest squatters, in Germany, and France has coined the term ‘Tanguy syndrome,' named for a film in which the protagonist refuses to leave his parents' home. ‘Mama Hotels' run a brisk business in Austria, and in South Korea, there seem to be quite a few ‘kangaroos' (you get the drift).”

But only in the original article do you learn that Bamboccioni is Italian for "big, thumb-sucking baby"! (Italy has now crossed 70% of 20s & 30s people living with their parents, approaching Japan.)