Gesture to select bones and all of its children in Pose Mode
There is currently no option to select all children of a bone in Pose Mode easily. When in Edit Mode, you can actually do this by selecting a parent bone, then Shift+G, then choose Children. My suggestion is to mimic the selection of selecting edge loops in meshes: Alt+Left Click and for the "Emulate 3 Button Mouse" people like myself, double-clicking on parent bone.
To my knowledge, those gestures aren't mapped to anything in Pose Mode yet.
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My addon ChainTools has a utility for selecting different kinds of bone chains - defined by parents, constraints, names, etc. This may do some of what you want, although it doesn't do a recursive search for all children, it just selects bones within a single chain.
* @Josephbburg * Hi Joseph, thanks for your work on this. You are right in that it's useful for part of what I might want to do but it doesn't address the main issue I have.