If the child is YOUR child, the child is your legitimate child, married or not.

Your mother gave birth to you, her child. When the child has a child that is a grand child. When the grand child has a child, that is a great grand child.

A child must be emancipated, and having a child does not emancipate a child in MS.

The differences is that the legitimate child is the legal child while the illegitimate child is the illegal child.

No, child support is not paid to the child but to the parent raising the child.