I'm SOOO glad they left the '70s style of having the little boy in the MEGA-tight shorts always hanging around.
Of course, we all prefer the ladies. MUCH easier on the eyes.
LOL! Amongst Sci-Fi fans, that sort of character now has a slang name...any child or young person in a movie who has some sort of "special" relationship with the monster, or seems to have acess to all high-level military planning meetings and is taken seriously by those present is called a "Kenny", after the first one who appeared in a "Gamera" movie back in the day.