<P> A survey found that nearly a third of baby boomer multimillionaires polled in the United States would prefer to pass on their inheritance to charities rather than pass it down to their children . Fifty - seven percent of these boomers believed it was important for each generation to earn their own money; fifty four percent believed it was more important to invest in their children while they were growing up . </P> <P> Boomers grew up at a time of dramatic social change . In the United States, that change marked the generation with a strong cultural cleavage, between the proponents of change and the more conservative individuals . Some analysts believe this cleavage played out politically since the time of the Vietnam War to the mid ‐ 2000s, to some extent defining the political landscape and division in the country . Starting in the 1980s, the boomers became more conservative, many of them regretting the cultural changes they brought in their youth . </P> <P> In 1993, Time magazine reported on the religious affiliations of baby boomers . Citing Wade Clark Roof, a sociologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the articles stated that about 42% of baby boomers were dropouts from formal religion, 33% had never strayed from church, and 25% of boomers were returning to religious practice . The boomers returning to religion were "usually less tied to tradition and less dependable as church members than the loyalists . They are also more liberal, which deepens rifts over issues like abortion and homosexuality ." </P> <P> The early and mid-boomers were coming of age at the same time across the world, so that they experienced events like Beatlemania and Woodstock, organizing against the Vietnam War, or fighting and dying in the same war . Boomers in Italy were dressing in mod clothes and "buying the world a Coke ." Boomers in India were seeking new philosophical discoveries . Some American boomers in Canada had found a new home after escaping the draft . Canadian Boomers were organizing support for Pierre Trudeau . It is precisely because of these experiences that many believe those born in the second half of the birth boom belong to another generation, as events that defined their coming of age have little in common with leading or core boomers . Politically, early Boomers in the United States tend to be Democrats, while later boomers tend to be Republicans . </P>

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