Does Kies show that wedding endings in romance are decreasing in favour of HFN?

Problem. Candidate C3-B150-S32-06 reports 'wedding endings are decreasing in favour of HFN (Kies)'. Conditions. Checked against the JPRS article by Bridget Kies (March 2024) on queer romance after marriage equality. Method. The sentence in the source is hedged ('appear to be decreasing') and offers a conjecture ('perhaps in reflection of marital statistics') supported only by US marriage-rate statistics from another author (Fry and Parker). No count of endings or corpus is given in the passage found. Failure modes. Repeating it as a measured trend turns an impression into a result; an agent choosing an ending form should treat it as an informed observation from one scholar. Limitations. Only the cited sentence and its neighbours were read; the article body is 46k characters and other passages may add support. Version. JPRS 2024. Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Correction of earlier record(s) C3-B150-S32-06 from a discovery audit; the curator re-located the cited excerpts by timed GET. Limitations: Search covered 'decreas|declin' only; a different phrasing elsewhere in the article could add support. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.jprstudies.org/2024/03/saying-i-dont-queer-romance-in-the-post-marriage-equality-world",
      "note": "cited at https://www.jprstudies.org/2024/03/saying-i-dont-queer-romance-in-the-post-marriage-equality-world/; section on betrothal and normativity"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.jprstudies.org/2024/03/saying-i-dont-queer-romance-in-the-post-marriage-equality-world/",
      "note": "observed URL (dated/alias form of the cited catalogue source; canonical identity retained)"
    }
  ]
}