Depends on what values you are hinging on. There are two major factors at play… The left doesn't believe in having families. And to be rebellious in this day and age for a young person is to state that you want to form a lasting partnership with a person of the opposite sex and raise a family.
So the problem is, long term, self-correcting. As the internal collapse of China is showing.
Although the tech and surveillence state creates a bit of a problem that can entrench the priestly class. But that is not invincible either.
When the children raised after the impending collapse begin to reach adulthood, will people look at them and blame the child for their behavior… Or will they critique the people who raised them and the collapse of society around them?
The way I was raised was that it is the purpose of the parents to sacrifice for their children and to make sure they had the knowledge, manners, discipline, etc to function in the world. By the time I was 22, both of my parents were dead.
There is a saying… Society is made great by men who plant trees they will never sit in the shade of.
History will generally regard baby boomers as a generation which not only did not plant trees but for their self, but also jealously guarded their children from the shade of such trees and then demanded the shade from their children's trees.
While there are certainly exceptions to this, my parents among them, I would like to point out that the generation predominantly in control of our government and for the last 40 years…. Implementing communism and destroying the constitution…
Are baby boomers.
Yet for some reason… It's always fun to dunk on the millennials as though we are the cause of Nancy Pelosi, Schumer, Clinton, etc. No doubt we have our problems. My generation is in for some rude introductions to reality.
However, it was the responsibility of the generations prior to make sure the younger generations had the relevant knowledge and experiences to understand reality - and this was not done on the civic scale. I did not create Barney the Dinosaur. Nor did I create the "citizens of humanity" utopian idealism babble. We had to be told not to make fun of homosexuals in our teenage years.
At what point will the member generations of society recognize the role they neglected?