Next poll should be about teens. I loathe them as a rule.
Anyway, little kids are okay as long as they behave and don’t get too hyper. Including my own.
I love her to bits but she drives me crazy. If she wasn’t mine, I’d probably think her mama needed to do something about her antics. 
Bi female who doesn’t like being in charge of kids, but doesn’t mind being around them. I’m not very good at communicating with kids, and I have trouble understanding what they want or how to keep them amused and out of trouble. I think looking after children is always a chore, and not enjoyable.
I love kids! They’re hilarious and entertaining.
Poll is too narrow. I’m not crazy about kids, nor am I particularly good with them in general. But I am tolerant of them and I can find the cuteness and enjoy their company for limited stretches of time. I smile at cute kids, go awwww at the adorable ones, laugh at the funny ones, quietly curse the pains in the ass.
I just don’t usually prefer their company and I burn out on them fairly quickly.
ETA: Straight male, no kids ( but several nieces and a nephew ).
Straight male. I can tolerate kids for a very short time. I can stand my own for a couple of hours a day but twenty minutes tops for other kids.
I love my kids. Small babies are cute and I’ll hold one for a while (as long as it’s happy). But other than that, I’m not really interested until they get interesting, in their teens.
I vote for this.
I hate all children.
I think children from toddler to about age 6 are delightful.
Tweens and early teens make me stabby.
Babies I like in small doses, depending upon how much they cry.
Once they reach about 15 or 16 they become human again and I like them. If we could just cut out those middle years between 6 and 15 things would be great.
I voted “Straight female here. In general, I love being around kids; exceptions are few.” But what I really wanted was:
“Straight female here. In general, I love being around other people’s kids; exceptions are few. But I don’t want any of my own.”
I like kids, I’ve found. They used to terrify me. But what I’ve realized is that the kids themselves are pretty neat, it’s the responsibility that sends me over the edge. So I like kids when I can just play and enjoy them for who they are.
I like kids. On the whole, I think I like them more than I like grownups. They’re happier and more animated than adults. They can still be cruel and petty, but not with the guile and corruption of adults. I find having kids in the neighborhood relaxing, even when they’re doing the little-girl screaming thing. I think that’s sweet, compared to assholes with Harleys or boom-cars. Yes, they’re selfish and loud and mess with things, but that’s their job. No, they don’t offer intelligent conversation. Most adults don’t either.
It’s my own fault for breaking it down by both sexual orientation and by gender. Ran out of space in the poll. 
I think it’s a dumb question. Nobody ever asks, “Do you like adults?” and expects you to answer yes or no about the category as a whole.
The answer is, it depends on personality, just as it does with adults. Even some babies are more personable than others.
Skald ol’ pal, this thread was probably better done as an essay question. Maybe this is the impetus you need to simplify your polls–you could start by manning up and only having two choices for yes/no questions (those two choices being (i) yes and (ii) no). 
I dunno; it’s the only explanation I can think of for why so many children survive to adulthood.
My brother-in-law whose daughter was and is a hellbeast always used to call us child-haters; so many times we had to bite our tongues to not say, “We don’t hate kids; we just hate YOUR kids.”
Straight male, voted “hate all kids”, and that’s generally true with the following caveat…
the only exception to the rules are my nephew and niece, (9 and 6, respectively) my niece has a cute-but-evil streak, a deviousness that’s heartwarming, my nephew is rapidly turning into a mini version of me, which is quite frankly, terrifying, one of me is bad enough…
He’s got a love of Doctor Who, and often will stop over just to watch episodes with me on my MacBook, he loves taking things apart to see how they work, has a very analytical mindset, we were chatting this evening about my job as a computer tech, and he was intrigued that i am basically paid to take things apart and put them back together again.
he’s also an outdoorsy kid who is finally showing some emotional maturity, thanks in part to joining the cub scouts, he’s actually got a cub scout knife that he was proudly showing off to me, and was handling and using it very safely, I think he may end up inheriting one of my Swiss Army Knives at his next birthday, as he’s showed admirable responsibility.
He’s been showing an interest in getting into the shooting sports as well, his cub scout troop has been teaching shooting skills with the BB gun, about a week ago, he ran up to me and enthusiastically showed me his first BB gun target, and he didn’t do half bad for a first timer, most of his hits were in the 8-10 rings…
I’m planning on taking him to my Rod and Gun club at some point (assuming my sis approves…) in the near future, and starting him off with a real rifle, probably the Ithaca 49 single-shot lever action that Dad taught me to shoot on, Dad no longer shoots (sadly), I’d love to have both Dad and Logan down at the range, I’ll start Logan off with primer-only CB Shorts and CB Longs (just a tad more powerful than a pellet rifle), and at some point introduce him to trapshooting with the old .410 single-shot shotgun, until then, I can have him be my trap throwing assistant
Okay, back on track, my feelings on kids in general are;
Babies; annoying, noisy, smelly, and basically look like potatoes-with-faces, I avoid them at all costs, much like a vampire is repelled by crosses and garlic
Toddlers; annoying, screechy shrieking banshees, possessive, annoying little shits, I also avoid them
Preschoolers; not as annoying as babies and toddlers, but still annoying, still, avoid at all costs
grade schoolers; at this point, it depends on the kids as they are developing a personality, if the personality is that of a shrieky, self-centered little brat, or any other jerkish, self-centered behavior, avoid
Basically, I determine how much or how little time I spend around kids, and I prefer it to be as little as possible, but I’ve been warming to my nephew and niece, especially since they’re developing personalities that I don’t find irritating, still, given a choice, I’d prefer to avoid kids entirely
Children’s librarian here – I love kids, especially the kind who use libraries. But I like people in general. Teens and young adults are cool too. They keep us geezers on our toes.
Straight male no kids, but love my two nieces, hate all other kids. My nieces have been raised to NOT be little fucking monsters, and I appreciate that.
Joe
Straight female, chose *I don’t fit into any of your narrow categories, chump. *
I don’t have kids of my own and don’t plan to. I’m ambivalent about being around kids. I generally like children, babies not so much. I’m pretty tolerant of normal kid behaviour, but get annoyed when I see repeated bad behaviour not being corrected, but that annoyance is directed at the parents, not the child.
I get along with most children seeing as it’s my job (teacher) but I don’t like all children any more than I like all adults. I do want children of my own someday.
My boyfriend wants kids too, but any day we spend time with his nephews and niece, I think he starts to reconsider. They are sweet children but quite the handful. Just a few hours with them is completely exhausting.