Depending on your intentions for this poem and your intended audience, this poem can either be seen as a nice little light piece, or somewhat juvenile and too simple and safe to be taken as a serious piece of art. And I'm sorry to say, with no offense intended on my part, that in my reading it tended to lean toward the latter.

Now, there's nothing "wrong" with this poem. It is not overtly "bad" or poorly-written or anything really negative like that. It's fine little poem for what I'm thinking you meant it to be. But it can never be a classic or anything, and I'm sorry to say it's probably going to be forgotten by most people who read it. It reads somewhat like something a grade-schooler might have to write for an assignment on the first day of school. Especially the acrostic form and family subject-matter make it seem like this.

And I must say that, sorry, but the rhyming is a bit problematic. Care and core, I'm sure what you were trying to do there, as it isn't a rhyme, you just change one vowel, and the rest of the couplets rhyme. And the "lovely" "family" part barely qualifies as a slant-rhyme.

This seems a bit harsh, I know. But I do reiterate that it's a nice, simple little poem, if nothing spectacularly memorable. It would be great for an audience of children, parents, or grade-school teachers. But most high school age and older people probably won't appreciate it as much as them.

 I think it is nice that you feel so strongly about your family, or families in general. Yes, I do believe that families should be sweet, little circles, but I think your poem should have addressed the bit about struggles people go through as a family and maybe how they work their way out of it and even though you get mad at your parents you still love them. I don't know, it just seemed a little too sugar coated almost and the way it was written was very simple and little bit jeunvenile. Keep that in mind for the next poem you write.

I also didn't feel like their was enough strong imagry.

 Simple yet to the point. It somes up the parents establishing a home for the children  filled with love. And real parents encourage their children to do their best in all things.  I like the word nest because a nest is a place of warmth and a place where little one are taken care of until they can take care of themselves with the nurturing of the parents. A happy family is a loving family becasue when a family can laugh together they can accomplish much.

Ruth El

I not sure the setting in which this was written, but I could see it being an in class assignment. For that it is a fine little poem about F A M I L Y, using the letters adequately.

Oh, I see it was for some type of contest ... perhaps on this site.

I did feel the rhyming scheme was forced. With an accrostic poem rhyming is not important, rhythm more so is and forcing the simblance of a rhyme cause it not to flow as well.

Were I judging this in a contest it probably wouldn't be a winner, it would be suited for a class assignment and would win over opinion for the subject. Family is an important and powerful subject.

I hope you keep at it, play with this format and others. It was nice, not fantastic, not horrific. Nice.