Thank you for your input everyone. Mine got me in trouble with CPS (child protective services). She began to be so verbally abusive at around 14. But I saw the signs way before. I, unfortunately put my hands on her, pulled her hair and dragged her from the bathroom, putting a small scratch on her upper arm. This was in Feb. 2007. She called the police, because she had MY cell phone....which we were fighting over to begin with. Well you can guess what happened. I was arrested....I have had the fight of my life for well over a year...CPS dragged my then 12 yr old son into the situation. It is such a long and exhausting story. I had to go to the City Attorney's office...they did not press charges, in fact the woman in their office was pretty understanding and knows about the teenage monsters that are around these days. Nothing was good enough for this kid and she began to degrade me JUST LIKE HER FATHER (thus the book "Just Like His Father"). My case it's her. She was staying with friends for a couple months and got caught posting dirty stuff on MySpace and also got caught shoplifting...CPS wanted to custody to her father (the P) who had not seen either child for over 4 yrs. All this stuff is just the CLASSIC things that I read about on this board. After hiring a private attorney Children were returned to my mother, MGM....as long as I did not live at the house (my house where I lived with both kids and my mom). When daughter even went into foster care for 2 months waiting court date, it was momma, momma, momma, I am so sorry...crocodile tears...now that she is back home in a comfortable situation and back at her former school she does not want anything to do with me......could care if I were dead on the side of the road. I just got unmonitored visits with son who is now 13 1/2. He is wonderful and we love each other very much. To all..........it is about genetics. You never know how the genes are going to rearrange themselves in a particular child. And if there is Ps, Ns, etc. in the blood, well it is going to come out. She is exactly like my XH. Her lying style is the same. I see it in her eyes.....for those who say it is a teenage thing...blah blah blah,,,,,well I expect her to get worst...I know her father. AND average mental health professionals have no fricken clue as we all know> |