While I agree with your comments about today's kids, every time I start to lose faith I think of the following quote:
“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
The quote is from Socrates. This is the way things have always been, it is the way they will always be.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63219-our-youth-now-love-luxury-they-have-bad-manners-contempt