months were required to perform community service. It also required single mothers who had received up to twenty four months of financial assistance, consecutively or not, to work outside the home thirty hours a week, and penalized mothers who did not work thirty hours a week by reducing or terminating her benefits. Critics have accused PRWORA for discriminating against unmarried women who have never been married, as they are required to "reveal the details of their children's conception to state officials", while divorced, unmarried women are exempt from submitting information, as PRWORA assumes the biological father of the children is the man to whom they were married to when the child was conceived. This has been criticized for violating the women's 14th Amendment right to make marital decisions without governmental interference (based on Loving v. Virginia) and coercing women into creating or maintaining relationships with the biological fathers; this interference also does not satisfy the heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause. Strict regulations PRWORA has been criticized for its terms, which permit all states to not assist people in poverty, even if they meet all the necessary criteria. It also does not offer additional federal funds to states that have depleted their block grant and contingency funds, thus leaving mothers and children (who meet the eligibility criteria) with no financial assistance. States are granted more freedom to create regulations that are stricter than federal laws. This manifests in regulations that: Make women work outside the home sooner than is required Create shorter working time limits than is required Allow states to withhold cash benefits in cases where single mothers do not identify the biological father of her children Discriminate households in which children are born while the mother is enrolled in welfare by not giving said households benefits Withhold welfare from mothers whose children do not attend school without an explanation Sanction households with adults younger than fifty-one who do not have and are not actively working to receive a high school diploma Require drug tests of recipients Enforce welfare regulations of former states for new state residents Do not require states to provide cash benefits at all Impeding access to higher education and employment Diana Spatz, executive director of Lifetime, a statewide organization of low-income parents in California, advocates for the repeal of PRWORA because it prevents a woman from doing what she did prior to its passage: