My daughter is 15. When she was 13, me and her father divorced because he was cheating on me with another woman. When that happened, I put her into therapy to help her process that change. Around that time, we started having trouble with her disrespecting me and testing boundaries, and it's been a downward spiral ever since.Fast forward to the present. She regularly skips school, and she sneaks out. She currently isn't even on track to graduate. I've been fined for her truancy, and as for the running away, the police won't do anything because she isn't considered a runaway until she's been gone for 24 hours, and I always find her before then. Recently, she even shoplifted from a store. Luckily for her, the police just let her off with a warning. Now today, she told me that she is pregnant, and she refuses to have an abortion. I previously knew that she was having sex with a boy, and when I found out that she was having sex, I made sure that she had protection and birth control, but apparently, she wasn't using it. I just feel so hopeless. She disrespects me to my face, lies to me, and refuses to listen to anything I say. I've been doing everything I can to help her. We've been to multiple therapists to help her, but therapy hasn't helped because she's uncooperative. I've given her logical consequences for her actions, but again, they haven't helped. I've been understanding and calm and loving, but she just spits all my effort back into my face. I really don't want to raise a baby now, and I'm thinking of telling her that if she wants to keep the baby, I won't help her raise it. What should I do? Do you have any better advice? via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2NY8jfy
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