The Catholic view (that all Christians once shared) is that most people choose marriage as a vacation, but a substantial minority choose celibacy ("not marrying").
Those sacramental marriages are chaste (you only have sex that is open to life, you only have sex with the person you are married to or you don't have sex, and you can't trade them in for someone else to have sex with). Which tends to lead to high fertility across the population. One couple will have no children, another will have 1 or 2, another will have 3 or 4, etc., and you end up solidly above the replacement rate, on average.
A lot of people didn't get married. Few divorced and almost nobody remarried. A lot of people didn't have kids. Some people had a lot of kids. It worked. 🤷♀️
Increasing the number of people having kids has actually coincided with the birthrate going DOWN.
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