The macaroon is also related to the modern days as beauty standards are still happening until today too.

The children's love for the mother would never change as they come from the mother's womb and especially if they're taken care by their stay at home moms they spent their majority of time with mothers creating a strong bond.

Gender roles and society expectations may seem to be forcibly erased but it's still there just much less. Its more subjective than back then which was more objective. In the modern years you have more rights than the expectations of the olden days.

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