>And once they look away, they'll find that they have nothing; they've poured their efforts into something that has left them with no real status in society.

>Similarly, people using robotic devices in this way will have poured something rather different into them but the result is still the same;

I agree that a stable family is the ideal but I fail to see how spending your money on sex dolls is worse than getting divorced in your late 20s or early 30s and getting stuck paying for kids for a decade or more. Those people manage just fine.