Segment from Committed Listener Calls The Backstory hosts take calls about marriage. Rewind 15 seconds Play Fast-forward 15 seconds 00:00:00 / 00:00:00 Mute See Share options All segments from Committed Can This Marriage Be Saved? Brian talks with Wendy Kline about the links between the rise of marriage counseling and the scientific embrace of eugenics. 00:07:31 Babies Having Babies The Backstory hosts talk to Nicholas Syrett about the 1938 marriage of a 9-year-old Tennessee girl to a 22-year-old man – and the national uproar it prompted. 00:03:03 Current segment Listener Calls The Backstory hosts take calls about marriage. 00:10:04 What’s Love Got to Do With It? The Backstory hosts discuss just why people got married before they married for love. 00:02:14 In the Eyes of the Law Ed chats with Liz Regosin about what marriage meant to freedpeople who had not been allowed to legally marry under slavery – and why freedpeople’s marriages were of such interest to Northern white reformers. Then Peter, Ed, and Brian riff on federal intervention in our intimate affairs. 00:06:04 Goin’ to the Chapel Before there was Vegas, baby, there was Elkton, Maryland. BackStory contributors Nell Boeschenstein and Kelley Libby take a trip to this tiny town and tell the story of its former life as the elopement capital of the country. 00:04:57