You should be in the baby's life even though she did something so terrible like that but growing up without a farther I know first hand how hard it is when bring your dad to school day comes around and everyone else's father is there and people ask you where your father is and you have to tell them hes working or on a trip for a while. Trust me it will really help in the long run with the child support case and all.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.