Our America with Lisa Ling

Lisa Ling meets the Unabomber's brother, a serial killer's daughter and a school shooter's father. Behind the curtain of shame and vilification surrounding the families of notorious killers, she finds heartbreak, guilt and love.

Can you imagine being happily married and still dating someone else ... with your spouse's consent? There are half a million Americans practicing polyamory, and Lisa Ling meets three families who are pushing the limits of love, commitment and family.

Lisa Ling talks to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, including two men who suffered at the hands of a long-time employee of the Boston Red Sox and a woman who was abused by two different teachers at the same school.

Lisa Ling investigates Fellowship of the Martyrs, a radical Christian organization that some say is a cult. Current and former members shed light on the group, its leader and their message of bask-to-basics Christianity.

In Season 2 of Our America, Lisa Ling explored the shadowy underworld of domestic human sex trafficking in America's capital. In 3A.M. Girls: One Year Later, she returns to the streets to check in with these girls and see if anything has changed.

As Lisa Ling helps her own father navigate the challenges of aging, she comes across a variety of seniors who aren't letting age stop them from living. They're still dating, embracing adventure and learning to grow old gracefully.

Childhood obesity is epidemic in the US, and as a result, the youngest generation now has a shorter life expectancy than their parents. Lisa Ling meets families who are helping their children lose weight in order to survive.

Lisa Ling goes beyond the best-selling fantasy novel, Fifty Shades of Grey, to explore the real world of BDSM: bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadomasochism. What she finds is a kinky truth far more complicated than fiction.

An estimated 15 million Americans are active in the "swinger" lifestyle. From house parties in suburban Arizona to swingers' clubs in Nashville and workshops in LA, we explore what's at stake when couples test their sexual boundaries and learn to swing.

In America, we're innocent until proven guilty. But when the system fails, how can an innocent person restart their life? Lisa explores the lives of men who were wrongly convicted and one man on death row whose daughter is fighting for the truth.

Lisa Ling investigates the case of a teenage boy who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for touching a girl's breast -- and is now a registered sex offender. Lisa will try to piece together what happened and find out: Did the punishment fit the crime?

In the wake of the Great Recession, America's middle class emerges as the face of the new poverty. Lisa Ling travels the country to meet those forced by the aftershocks of the economic crisis to downsize their lives and reassess the American Dream.

For most Americans, first comes love, and then comes marriage. For some, however, it's the opposite. Lisa Ling explores modern arranged marriages and profiles couples who found their life-long partners the old-fashioned way.

In South Dakota, the Lakota face the daunting challenges of extreme poverty, high teen-suicide rates and alcoholism. Lisa Ling meets people who seek modern and traditional solutions to give the next generation a brighter future.

Over 1,000 American girls give birth every day, more than in any other nation in the developed world. This is a story of teenage dreams, of powerful efforts to stop children from having children, and of teenage freedom lost to the cycle of teen pregnancy.

Statistics show that the tradition of the American nun may be dying out, but Lisa Ling meets nuns and sisters of all ages who continue to pledge their lives to God, and discovers what has drawn them to this radical lifestyle.

Lisa Ling dives into the competitive and image-obsessed world of child pageants. Some pint-sized princesses have big dreams, while others may be living out their parents' fantasies,

Join us as we revisit the people and communities we explore in season two of Our America. From polygamous households to prison cells, pageants and more, we'll see how their lives have changed.

From pageant parents to a "tiger mom" to parents who opt for radical "un-schooling," Lisa Ling explores the world of extreme parenting and discovers what these moms and dads have in common: they all believe their path is the best for their children.

Lisa Ling takes a close look at the factors behind the staggering incarceration rates in the African-American community, and meets three men and their families who hope to break the cycle once and for all.

It's something no "singleton" could understand -- the mysterious bond between identical twins. From the world's largest meeting of multiples to sisters separated at birth, we'll explore the age-old question of what shapes our identity: nature or nurture?

Lisa Ling journeys from a Veterans' Suicide Hotline in New York to a Veterans' Retreat in New Mexico to meet the people whose lives have been shattered in the course of serving our country, along with those who are lifting them up from the rubble of war.

Lisa Ling explores the disturbing underworld of domestic human sex trafficking in America, where it's estimated that as many as 300,000 underage girls born in the US are at risk of being bought and sold for sex every year.

In a journey to Centennial Park, Arizona, Lisa Ling visits one of America's most closed-off communities and is granted unprecedented access to a group of modern-day men and women who are living in plural marriages -- and professing to love it.