In the Middle East, men are single parents, too, and their situations are more fragile if they’re also refugees
Lebanon hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees per capita. The country is currently hosting 1.5 million of the 6.7 million Syrian refugees displaced globally, according to government estimates. Among them are single mothers raising young children on their own with little to provide for them. But what the rest of the world doesn’t often hear about are the single fathers having to raise children, as refugees.
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