User blog comment:DancePowderer/Favorite Arc Thematically/@comment-24769684-20190405032706/@comment-2600:1702:3C50:A6E0:4182:BE9B:F35D:3616-20190405120555

Family is a powerful theme in Whole Cake Arc. We see how different families and parents interact with their children to affect future generations. Big Mom is given poor parenting which ends up making her a poor parent and horrible person with terrible traits. These are traits she passes on and encourages in her children whom see sees as little more then tools. Judge "loves" his children so long as they obey him and meet his standards while treating poor Sanji cruelly. By contrast, Pound is only able to be a parent for a few minutes and he proves himself a better parent then Big Mom by helping his daughter to escape at his own risk. Zeff does what is best for Sanji despite his gruff personality and his mother chose to risk her life to keep her children from being war machines. It is telling that Big Mom and Judge both found themselves betrayed or at the very least opposed by one or more member of their family due to disgust over these things.