(we've all seen trees, and arent Adam and Eve condemned for having gone scrumping?; interestingly a great philosopher recalled Saint Augustine spent a lot of his long life being racked with guilt for having gone scrumping for some pears when he was a boy! ...)

The opposite supposition is that younger people are more receptive to social change and unconventional ways, thus more likely to marry out at a higher rate.

Alectromancy, by Cooks [sic] or Pullen... -- The Magastromancer xix, Gaule, 1652

I said, 'Are you Isabel or Tris?' I'm Tris. Patricia.' She was back to her hair, eyes crammed to the side, snapping off dry split ends and flicking them to the floor.