Fewer
“Less” is usually for non-countable objects, while “fewer” is for countable.
“Less slime” vs. “Fewer bees”
The comparison in this case is operating on the word half, not on the subject of the sentence:
Only half want to get married, even less [than half] want kids.
Huge caveat: they only surveyed unmarried 18-49 year olds. Three huge problems are obvious:
- Unmarried people are more likely to want to remain unmarried
- People who are past typical marrying age are less likely to want to get married
- People who are past peak child rearing ages are less likely to want children
So, no. The headline is inaccurate. If we only survey single 18-49 y.o.s then of course we’ll get higher numbers of people who want to remain unmarried.
Still an interesting result, but very different from the clickbait headline.
Keep on making it economically unfeasible…
Meh. After 10 years I finally got married to my partner. Not because we ever planned to or cared, but because older family wanted to put money in for it. So as far as we were concerned, we had an awesome party with a brief annoying document signing in it. Would’ve rather we got to use the money on something that actually mattered though.
I don’t even remember what date the wedding anniversary is. Some time in October. March 6 is the real anniversary of our first date and that’s the only one we care about.
The vast majority of South Korean 19 - 34 year olds describe the country as hell.
“The survey found that 79.1% of young women and 72.1% of young men want to leave Korea, that 83.1% of young women and 78.4% of young men consider Korea “hell””
