Is Marriage Normative for Christians?

Culture does not rejoice at the blessing of children. It doesn't see marriage as forming a beautiful, meaningful, lifelong, faith building matrix for growing the next generation. Our culture has virtually stripped the pleasures of sex from the place god appointed for them. These and dozens of other ways we are all infected by the spirit of our times. All of that to i speak with the kind of trembling that i may be more a child of my times than i wish. I try to be under the scriptures. I want to be countercultural in a biblical way. But i know how inevitable t is that i speak from a particular cultural time place.