{"id":1472037,"date":"2022-05-11T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472037"},"modified":"2022-05-11T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:44:39","slug":"6-year-old-who-ran-marathon-with-his-family-visited-by-cps-family-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/6-year-old-who-ran-marathon-with-his-family-visited-by-cps-family-says\/","title":{"rendered":"6-Year-Old Who Ran Marathon With His Family Visited By CPS, Family Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F6-year-old-who-ran-marathon-with-his-family-visited-by-cps-family-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472037&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/8CE4C788-B42C-4510-ACED-3DF88DF3D677-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A 6-year-old Kentucky boy who ran in a Cincinnati marathon was visited by Child Protective Services, his parents said this week.<\/p>\n<p>Kami and Ben Crawford, whose son, Rainier, ran in the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati with his entire family, was visited by CPS at the family\u2019s home in Bellevue, Kentucky, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CdWCrFer_7o\/\">Instagram<\/a> post made by the family on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Friday, social workers came to our house and interviewed our children because leaders in the running community are calling running with children wrong,\u201d the post says. It then shows a picture of Rainier seated at a table outside the family\u2019s home supposedly speaking with one of the CPS workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis needs to stop,\u201d the Crawfords wrote in the caption to their Instagram post. \u201cOur children are having emotional breakdowns, NOT from running, but from a mob that has been weaponized by [running\u2019s] most accomplished and celebrated individuals. They are stating that children running is abusive and not providing any data or facts. The reports and stance are false. Hundreds of witnesses including police officers and hours of video footage corroborate. When will you apologize and retract?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The family also noted that Rainier \u201cadamantly decided that he wanted to run a marathon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As controversy erupted around the family, Olympic long-distance runner <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karagoucher\/status\/1521883265828675585\">Kara Goucher<\/a>\u00a0seemingly condemned the parents for allowing Rainier to run in the 26.2 mile race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know who needs to hear this but a six year old cannot fathom what a marathon will do to them physically,\u201d Goucher wrote on May 4. \u201cA six year old does not understand what embracing misery is. A six year who is \u2018struggling physically\u2019 does not realize they have the right to stop and should.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not questioning motivation or saying it is bad parenting. But as an Olympic athlete, I promise you this is not good for the child. Children are children. Let them run around, but as the parent you need to protect their growing bodies and their young minds,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karagoucher\/status\/1521883267393146880\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Crawfords <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CdHoeSlsO3R\/\">responded<\/a> to the controversy in another Instagram post last week. \u201cOn May 1 our family of 8 finished an entire 26.2 mile marathon,\u201d the family wrote in the caption of the post, which showed Ben Crawford, Kami Crawford, and their 6 children crossing the finish line together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first marathon our entire family has run together. Our 5 older kids waited for over an hour at mile 25 and after 8 hours and 35 minutes we all crossed the finish line together. After 2 days celebrating with friends, how we spent our day has got a lot of attention from some who are accusing us of being irresponsible and even abusive,\u201d the post noted.<\/p>\n<p>The Crawfords wrote that they \u201chave never forced any of [their] children to run a marathon\u201d and \u201ccannot even imagine that as feasible practically or emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The parents added that they give all their children the option to run before every race, and that in 2021, two of the children ran the marathon without the rest of the family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year after begging to join us we allowed our 6 year old to train and attempt it,\u201d the family added, but said they \u201cwere ready to pull the plug at any moment if he requested it or if we viewed his safety at risk.\u201d They further noted that they \u201casked him numerous times if he wanted to stop and he was VERY clear that his preference was to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 6-year-old Kentucky boy who ran in a Cincinnati marathon was visited by Child Protective Services, his parents said this week.Kami and Ben Crawford, whose son, Rainier, ran in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1482649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}