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This is where we've ended up by shawno3

With the added caveat that our daughter is not going to be allowed to go over to this girl's house.

The girl has told my wife in the past "My mom is done with me." My wife got a real-world example this morning. This girl had a "play date" (in both senses of the term) with the son of one of our neighbors. That neighbor told my wife this morning that the day that the girl came over there was complete radio silence from the mom. The girl told our neighbor that "my mom never answers if the call/text is from me." Finally the neighbor called the mom's cell phone at 9pm (keep in mind the neighbor was expecting a couple of hour play date). The mom says "I'm in [local town] watching a movie so I can't get there. Can you just drop her off at my house?" We can only wonder if/when the mom would actually have begin to care where her daughter was.