Legal Question in Family Law in Indiana

My daughter's father and I are separating. We are not married. I have filed for child support but no court date has been set yet. I am trying to make this as easy for both of us as possible but he is not cooperating or working with me at all. We cannot talk in person without him being completely hostile and argumentative so I email and text him and get no response. He is making this as awful as he possibly can and it's negatively affecting our two year old daughter. I don't know what to do. I am not comfortable letting him watch our daughter once he is out of the home (in approximately one week, his words). I am not even comfortable with him watching her here in our home because he has not made good decisions. He go's out without telling me, and with no regard of who will watch our daughter so I am left trying to find someone to watch her if he doesn't come home or leaving her here with him while he is hungover and/or passed out all day because I have no one to watch her. He lost his house key while drunk and so he leaves the door unlocked all the time now. Last weekend he brought someone home with him while they were drunk that he barely knows and that my daughter and me do not know and he did it without asking if it was okay with me. I made the unknown person leave while arguing with my daughter's father that he couldn't stay. I believe he is an alcoholic. He get's drunk every weekend, he comes home from work anywhere between 4:30am and 6am and drinks, sometimes until he's drunk. I have talked to him about it and he doesn't do anything about it. I have talked to his family about it and they do nothing about it. I don't know what I can do in this situation and I don't want to keep my daughter away from him but I am not comfortable leaving her with him. He has completely stopped cleaning up after himself and does nothing to help around our home. When he is home alone with our daughter, he doesn't make meals for her, they supposedly just "snack" all day. He doesn't change her clothes and he doesn't clean her up. He makes effort to go out for partying and drinking and spends most of his time on his phone looking at dating sites and other social networking sites. He has just become completely unreliable and not a good person/father. What can I do here, if anything?

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