These behaviours did have their prominent critics, many Greek philosophers acting as such, and Romans in particular had many "reform movements" which ended up in some kind of tyrannical laws being imposed
Even Emperor Augustus infamously gave a speech in which he prompted Romans to uphold traditional family values:
"If we could survive without a
wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure. "
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Julia
These debates are not really something that are confined to our times, they have continued for as long as civilizations have existed.