Syria war 'damaging a generation of children', UN warns --- The war in Syria is creating a generation of damaged children, a UN report warns. -- School-age refugees who have fled to neighbouring countries are increasingly cut off from education and forced to work to survive, the study found. -- As many as 300,000 living in Lebanon and Jordan could be without schooling by the end of 2013, the UNHCR says. -- Many of those not at school go out to work for long hours and for low pay from as young as seven years old. -- More than half of 2.2 million Syrian refugees are children, the UN says, with many facing grave dangers even outside the war zone. -- Those perils include threats to their physical and psychological well-being, according to the report's authors. -- Launching the report, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said: "If we do not act quickly, a generation of innocents will become lasting casualties of an appalling war." -- More than 70,000 Syrian refugee families now live without fathers, the UNHCR estimates, with some 3,700 refugee children living unaccompanied or without both parents. - More, BBC