Family Court

Family Court - meaning Summary

Familial Companionship Matters

Nash wryly observes that strangers might seem less threatening if one’s own family were more enjoyable company. The couplet compresses a social complaint into a single ironic thought: domestic relationships can be the source of annoyance or harm, undermining the default trust and loyalty normally associated with kin. The poem turns a commonplace expectation about family into a humorous, skeptical remark on interpersonal dynamics.