I have not seen a mining pool that treat it's miners like a family. Coinfoundry home page start with our family of mining pool that sound good. It take care of it's miners like a family and offer a great support to their miners.
Although it is not a big pool. but the rewards miners are getting is far more great compare to some bigger pool that pay less to their miners. What makes it better is that, it has a supportive staff that ready to go out of their ways to satisfying and offer a solution to miners problem.
It is good for beginners, because it has a cfg file, once you are able to download eth and follow the necessary step in less than 5 minutes you are good to stat mining.
From my own view, it is a good pool. And I can recommend it for anyone who like to mine