I don’t have children, but if I had, i would not be overly concerned, as i can not see how the world “is falling apart”. Sure there is terrorism, but there was violence throughout history and compared to other eras, we live in peaceful times. Sure we have an economic crisis, but it is lightyears apart from the great depression of the thirties, plus we have governments mounting countermeasures against it and we have capable social security (in europe at least) , so no major worries there either. Sure NK is acting up with their nuclear capability, but the situation is a far cry from the situation of the Cold War. Plus investment in alternative energy sources is underway, environmental protection programmes exist, and nuclear fusion doesn’t seem to far away either. Surely, the immediate outlook is not optimal, but it is not catastrophic either, and the world certainly is not “falling apart”.