Thanks Looking for Peace. A boarding school looks like the best option to me. The trick is finding one that takes girls with mental health issues. There seem to be way more of them for boys. We would do emancipation if it were possible but in our state it is almost never granted. If there's an affordable boarding school anywhere on earth that would take her and keep her until she's 18 I'm interested!!
Thanks SomewhereOutThere. I will look into CPS. She doesn't have any trauma at all other than divorce, which was about as untraumatic as they can be. She has had a very privileged and peaceful childhood. I suspect authorities will look differently on a biological child and tell me to suck it up--I have heard this from a mental hospital nurse who was horrified that I had been mean enough to take my daughter's phone away! When I told them she was violent toward me there attitude was "that was yesterday, today we will release her". I will certainly investigate, though. I appreciate the input.
