Pre-crisis assessments in Yemen demonstrated that women in food insecure families often eat less in order to provide for their children. Displaced women may not have access to hygiene or dignity items, forcing them to remain out of sight. Lack of life-saving response services and safe refuges for survivors - who often fear stigma or rejection - compound the problem. These informal ties are subject to erosion as assets are depleted, income sources cut, law and order collapsed, and people's psychological strength exhausted.