Within this series I've only read the first book, The One, and now this, so I don't know if the virtual reality metaverse has been discussed in any of the other books. But there's mention throughout this book about how the participants / parents are logging on and logging off, are having to wear the haptic suit and take breaks to come back to the real world... It just doesn't really feel like this could be a realistic parental experience in any huge way since you can literally just take off the VR headset and be away from your kid? Do they have to arrange virtual babysitters? Does this mean there's just big chunks of time when the virtual babies are sort of in stasis? And are the contestants only being filmed when they are being virtual? So then it's just a unscripted TV show not having much merit in reality?