Me, personally? I can't understand how someone can be a housewive from say age 25 to 75. Wouldn't you get so god awfully bored? Ambition? Career?
I understand the desire to spend time with children, but say only till they're 3 or 4 and start school. What do you do when they go to school? Seems an awfully boring life to me. I personally think it suggests a lack of ambition, and I can't be attracted to a person like that as I find ambition a very attractive quality.
So, on the whole, not for me, don't get why anyone would be a housewife in the long run. Oh and ditto for househusbands, though its FAR, FAR more frowned upon by society, whatever the idealists on here say.