Never, not in a million years.
I don't plan on having any children though, I'm terrible with kids and I'd rather get a puppy. But my work is my life, and I can't stand sitting at home for too long and hardly speaking to anyone.
Nothing to do with feminism, I just like my work and dislike children.
Me too! I don't like kids and HATE cooking and cleaning.
Plus I had the "A woman's place is in the home" crap shoved down my throat all through childhood and as a kid was always wishing I was a boy (plus I wanted to play sports and build model rockets and do cool stuff like that, that I really didn't get to do because it was "only for boys"... I made up for that part as an adult some though.)
However, if someone wants to stay at home and is not feeling forced to, that's ok. (I hear more about stay at home dads now too as well.)
Yes, I used to be the kind of feminist who ran down women staying at home. (That was because of the stuff with "A woman's place is in the home" being shoved down my throat all the time as a kid, though. Plus I just thought everybody should be like me. :biggrin1
Now I think it's about choices, and if someone chooses to stay at home that's ok but if they're trying to force women to stay at home, I still have a problem with that. I'm still a feminist, but a "feminism is about choices" person... Although truthfully I generally have very little in common with women who choose to stay home. But then I have very little in common with people who pretty much only like country music, hunting, and NASCAR too, but hey, if that's what they like, why not?
As for work, sadly I have not been successful at that either. I do like working outside of the home, but I tend to have trouble doing my job well enough for my employers' liking, no matter how hard I try, and no matter what field of work it is. It's terribly frustrating when you're career oriented but unsuccessful in your career. (not to mention the resulting financial problems!) So actually I would like to have a guy in my life who has a steady, decent paying job (I'm not a gold digger - he doesn't have to be super rich or anything - just would like someone who can help me out when I need it.) I'd still want to work outside of the home when I can (and avoid cooking and cleaning!), but it'd be nice to have another income to fall back on for when I am struggling like I am now.
As for my not liking kids, I think that is partly because I'm an only child and wasn't around other kids growing up, and in school I was the outcast kid (well, one of the outcast kids - there were several...) I also hate the noise. That as I later found out, wasn't about little kids specifically, but about the noise level in general. One year in college I was on a dorm floor with a bunch of girls who would run up and down the halls screaming at the top of their lungs for no apparent reason, and I had to take headache medicine EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!
Oh, and where I work now, I used to work with 13 men and only one other woman... it's changed now. I now work with 11 men and NO other women! I joke about loving that ratio... but of course I don't date co-workers or anything so it's beside the point. :biggrin1: (although a couple of them are rather easy on the eyes!) I'm doing ok at this job but it's temporary...