OK, so while I'm not exactly in any position to suddenly raise children, I'm sure my regular stalkers know how much I'd love to be a dad some day, and would prefer girls (since I feel I know them better due to coaching).
So while I think the neighbor kid is a little douche, the little girls across the street tend to be nice. When my office was upstairs I'd see them playing in the street all of the time, and you know, a part of me always got angry when the idiot with the motorcycle would go racing down the street.
But now that the oldest one is an early teen, there's another horror I hadn't considered. What if my kid ends up being attractive? The girls' mother is very pretty, so I guess it's to be expected that the daughters will be too. When I see her go over to the neighbor kid's house, I get this fatherly instinct to think, "You stay away from that girl!"
The girls I coached have always been 16 or older, so I guess I kind of expect that they're old enough to take care of themselves. But what about 12 to 15? Would I be one of those over-protective dads who never let her out of my sight?
I guess it's something best left to think about way, way in the future.