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Essay Instructions: 1. The paper should consider the following:
Should a biological father who had sexual intercourse with the child’s mother once and never had any relationship with the mother or child have a legal obligation to support the child? Should a same sex partner who has no biological relationship with the child or legal relationship with the child or its mother but had a long term emotional relationship with both have a legal obligation to support the child when the couple splits up? Traditional views of support would say yes to the first instance but no to the second.
What about the situation where one same-sex partner serves as the egg donor but the other partner carries the resulting embryo to term? If the couple splits up and the egg donor parent retains custody, what, if anything is the obligation of the other mother? What about the obligations when conception is accomplished in vitro and the resulting embryo is implanted in the mother against the wishes of the father after the couple splits up? Support obligation to dad?
2. In the essay, answer the following main question:
Should child support obligations be based on the biological, legal and/or social relationship between an adult and child?
3. Use the bulleted examples within the essay to illustrate and support your answer to the question.

Essay Instructions: 1. WHY DOES CHILD SUPPORT LAWS DIFFER FROM STATE TO STATE ?
2. WOULD A NATIONAL LAW FOR CHILD SUPPORT WORK ?
3. HOW DOES OTHER COUNTRY RUN THERE CHILD SUPPORT SYSTEM ?
4. IN CHILD SUPPORT CASE WHY DOES THE COURT FAVOR THE MOTHER OVER THE FATHER ?

Essay Instructions: Select a piece of federal legislation from the last 30 years which addresses an issue of importance to women. I chose the child support distribution act (child support). Fully research this policy in order to answer the following questions: 1. what is the official (and non official, if applicable) name of your chosen policy? 2. how does this policy impact women? does it have a disparate impact on particular groups of women? which ones and why? 3. what was/is the legislative history of this bill/law? who sponsored this bill? why did they introduce it? how did it fare in the congressional process of becoming law (committees, etc.)? who were its major supporters and detractors? why did they hold that position? what was the ultimate outcome for the legislation? 4. what is the current status of this policy? that is, has it been removed by the supreme court or amended by congress? if not, are there any existing attempts to remove or undermine this policy?

This paper must include a work cited page and include citations in the body of the paper

Essay Instructions: 1. Need an "Essay" on the faxed peer-reviewed journal article: Small Change: problems & Prospects in Child Support.

2. Essay should: a) state the problem, b) explain the major approaches to the topic, c) explain the methods, and d) explain the findings and discussion

3. Essay should be 3 pages.
There are faxes for this order.