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Leila Miller and LeeAnne Abel

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Leila Miller is the co-author with Trent Horn of Made This Way: How to Prepare Kids to Face Today’s Tough Moral Issues, and author of Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak and Raising Chaste Catholic Men. She blogs at LeilaMiller.netLeila and her husband live in Phoenix, Arizona.

LeeAnne Abel is co-author of a  teen leadership program used in the Diocese of Phoenix, covering the theology of the body, reproductive biology of men and women, pro-life issues, and bioethics. She is a board member of the Bioethics Defense Fund, and has been a sidewalk counselor and a manager for a pro-life pregnancy support center. She gives talks on adoption and accompanies birth moms and adoptive families in that beautiful option. She currently administers secret Facebook groups for the adult children of divorce originating with the publication of Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak. She and her husband live in the Phoenix area and enjoy their grown children and son-in-law, a grandson, and a Briard dog.

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