If you're writing a whole piece on it, I would appreciate at least some marginal shred of evidence of the presumption that there are far fewer teen babysitters.

If you're writing a whole piece on it, I would appreciate at least some marginal shred of evidence of the presumption that there are far fewer teen babysitters. The only piece of research they provide is a 'study' (more like a sociological qualitative research paper that interviews 16 non-random babysitters) that says that babysitters take more time to prepare. My perception is that this has always been a class thing and the answer to a lot of the "whatever happened to X" questions is that the journalist grew up in a lower class bracket than where they currently find themselves.