Virtual is Virtuous! was the popular slogan way back in the 2030s. The Chinese, with their laudable one-family-one-child policy, offered their vast computerate population virtual babies in addition to the permitted single physical offspring. Such was their automated skill at reading and blending parental DNA! Of course a sensible sex ratio was maintained. Realboy for every family, virtual girl; no no.
Virtual environments such as Celestial Empire were a home to this new virtual population with which proud parents could contentedly interact, while holography and touch-simulation let a virtual baby be paraded before proud grandparents in the material world. And…
