God the Father and the Ukrainian Perspective

Fathers often aren’t present in families, if they are present, they do not play an active role. Care of children is left up to the mother and to her mother. Reading one young boy’s information on a questionnaire, he listed his family as his mother, grandmother and sister, the father was nonexistent. This causes me to wonder about how Ukrainians accept the concept of God the Father, when with “father” they equate drunkenness, abandonment, adultery, etc. Most women in the church have spouses that are not Christian, and that sometimes may be alcoholic and abusive. Their faith constantly amazes me. Domestic life in Ukraine causes me to realize what a jewel it is when there is an intact family, when all members of the family are present at church, when the children have both parents actively participating in their upbringing. I pray that in time, this would become the social norm, that the society would be restored from its broken state.