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Marriage

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This segment assesses the state of marriage – the history, the future and the purpose.

Guests:

Charlotte Huggins, attorney and family law specialist

Barbara Risman, professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University and co-chair of the Council of Contemporary Families

Stephanie Coontz, historian at Evergreen State College and author of "The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap"

Hendrik Hartog, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University and author of "Man and Wife in America: A History."

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