Read Mayfly by Peter Watts, one of my favorite hard sf short stories that deals with a child being raised in a computer, sorta.
Also, here's the article in question in question. It's written as a sort of joke about the supposedly serious article on the same topic in daily mail which I haven't read yet.
There are several episodes dedicated solely to the two main characters
really boring episodes spoiler
playing virtual house together in their VR entrapment where they stop bothering to progress through the game, adopt an AI as their child and play happy family together.