RE: What bow to start kids?
I started my son out with a Browning Micro Midas. He was very intimidated by it as most kids will be. It got to the point where he was afraid to shoot it and decided archery wasn't his thing. Then about a year later I picked up a 35lb target recurve at a garage sale. He started shooting that and absolutely fell in love with archery. He learned everything about archery while shooting the recurve and when he gave the compound a second try he wasn't intimidated by it at all.
I suggest starting them out the way most of us started out!