First, to start off, I know that people may read this and think that I am an awful parent, or that if I had given more love or a better home, or anything else that can be thought of that she wouldn't be like this... But I am here to say that she has had UNCONDITIONAL love from MORE THAN MOST and she just keeps taking and hurting people.

My daughter is 17, and just moved BACK in with me AGAIN. She lived with her father and me until we divorced when she was 8, but we kept a VERY good relationship and continued that with his new wife. When she was 14, she has become completely out of control and the four of us sat down and decided to let her try living with them. They moved to an awesome school district, etc. She lived there for 3 years, but it was HELL on them. 9 of those months she refused to talk to me.

They then could no longer take it and she came back to me the summer before her junior year. After a month, I had already had to call the police twice (who did NOTHING to help - they told me that I needed to be worried about HER safety after SHE had gotten in MY face and blocked me and cussed me out in front of my son who was then 4).

My parents (who always think they are swooping in to help and never listen to ME) decided to have her live with THEM for a year. Of course, they thought that she hadn't received enough love or something, and that they could magically solve everything. They live in another state.

After about 6 months they finally started admitting how badly things were going. She had maintained a job, but had destroyed the room they gave her by mess, makeup all over the carpet, stolen from them as she had me and her dad and stepmom, but this has escalated to my dad's new volvo suv while he was on vacation, and using the same disrespectful loud mean voice where she talks over everyone and cusses. The last straw was when my mom was with her at a store and she got caught stealing! (this had happened before when she was younger and I had actually called the store and asked them to press charges, but they said that they would just give ME a fine).

After talking to my mom SO many times about if my daughter ever does this again, she needs to GO TO JAIL and stay there to learn her lesson, my mom gets scared and begs the officer not to take her in. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! I'm in another state, and then she calls me and says she's coming on a bus! My mom gets mad at ME for asking why she didn't send her to jail!

My daughter has had unconditional love. I have gone to softball games and traveled for tournament teams and competitive teams since she was 4. She has been on dance teams that did the same and also a soccer team that was competitive and traveled. All because she wanted to. I never pushed her. She has been given a lot - maybe too much sometimes.

I had her when I was 18. I finished high school and college, went to law school and am now a teacher. She has been brought up in a very good environment. We have rules that she always refused to follow.

The problem NOW is that she is almost 18, back with me, and refusing to basically do anything I ask. She yells when she doesn't get her way, tells me to "stop yelling" when I dare talk to her or try to be a parent, calls me crazy, psychotic, tells me to shut the eff up, and I could go on.

I know it sounds easy on the outside to say what to do. But she has been taken to doctors, counselors, I put her in a juvenile diversion program when she was younger to SHOW her what juvenile detention centers were like. She has been loved by SO many people who simply cannot take it anymore. I am all she has left and I honestly don't know if I can make it. I hide in my room or leave. I have a 5 year old son who is a really good kid and I don't want him to learn these behaviors.

I am at the end and basically just need support. Texas laws are not helpful, and CPS is awful here. Honestly, they could take her at this point, but I have my son to think about.

I love her, but right now I am tired of being abused. I no longer am speaking to my own family and a lot of it has to do over her. They always blamed ME and now what? They had the SAME problems.

Any advice would be welcomed... just go easy. I KNOW that she needs a spanking. It's just not exactly FEASIBLE at this age and the fact that she is bigger and louder than I am!