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We have two boxers. A 3-year old female, and a 14-month old female. They are both completely different personalities, but great dogs. Boxers LOVE to play! Thay have more energy that you, your spouse, and your child combined! They are also very intelligent and MUST be trained because they are also kinda stubborn. Our pups have had kids of all ages pulling, tugging, pushing...on them. They're very tolerant of it. My boxers LOVE playing rough with me too! They can truly box! They make loud growling sounds like they are mean, but it is just part of their playing. They know who they can play this way with, and who they can't. They will not rough house with my wife of my 12-year old daughter.
Boxers take about two years to get out of their puppy phase and start to settle down. During those first 2 - 2 1/2 years they become very efficient at landscape destruction and removal if you leave them unattended in your back yard for long periods of time. Our pups also liked to roam the casa and find things they think need shredding while we were away for the day! We solved that by crate training them. They now LOVE their crates. It is their own little retreat. All we have to do is say "Cages" as we are gettng ready to go and they trot into the room where their crates are and walk right into them. We often find them sound asleep in their crates when we are home. They're also lap dogs if you let them on your sofa with you.
I'd say go for it! Boxers are great family dogs!