Do you like children? Yes, or no?

[tropicalslavic]

I love my own kids. I like well-behaved kids. One good example is I know two 10 year olds IRL. One gets disciplined at home and developed lots of cool interests that I enjoy talking with her about. The other has pushover parents and is quite frankly dumb as a bag of bricks, constantly follows me around trying to tell me how to live my life bc his parents brainwash him into acting like this. In this regard kids are like anyone else, whether or not they're likeable depends entirely on their own behavior. I try to make excuses for poorly behaved little kids (I'm talking like toddler age) but from my experience it's not hard to make them mostly behave either and no one is required to like your little demon just because it's small. I obviously won't call a sweet well behaved kid a little demon. I tend to judge the parents much more than the kid if I can't stand being around a kid. Until the teen years they mostly do what you teach them to or let them get away with.

[gixajo]

I don't really enjoy modern gastronomy, I haven't tried human meat yet, neither adults nor children, so I can neither affirm nor deny that I like them.

That's what the question was referring to, right?

[Vessna]

I love children, regardless of age. I do possess quite strong maternal instinct and treat all children as my own. There is no “other” people’s children for me, just children (obviously to a healthy extent). If I see a child who needs help with whatever task and the parent is not around, I have no problem doing it eg push them on swings, help to climb off a ladder on a playground, give them water or help wash hands etc. Children trust me and their trust is priceless.
Raising a child is a great responsibility. It’s also expensive. I have a wonderful little girl and would be happy to have a little boy too.

[rothaer]

To me children are not excempted from being assessed. I like abt. half of the children around and half of them not.

As a generalised answer regarding what people want to know I'd summarisingly say that I do like children.