NBC turned it into an award-winning television special aired worldwide. It was like rain to a parched land for hundreds of families. In order to meet their need, in 1983 Kaufman founded the Option Institute and Fellowship at Sheffield, Massachusetts, which not only works specifically with special-needs children and their parents, but also seeks to improve the quality of life for others overcome by adversity. They and their daughters dared the impossible and proved that love and acceptance can win out over seemingly insurmountable barriers. The Miracle Continues also chronicles the flowering of several children once trapped behind impairment.
Nature ever gives value for value.
The natural tendency is for parents and relatives to feel that they are somehow to blame. We dare not be judgmental in these matters. Every individual is unique, with his own background of experience going back scores of millennia into the past, for humanity is not just a recent phenomenon on this planet. Nor may we discount the potency of love and devotion to exert a healing and beneficent influence, however invisible the response may be. We venture the thought that possibly this particular soul may have chosen his present life situation in order to clear the slate for the future, and in so doing experience firsthand what this particular birth opportunity could afford him and his family in deepening compassion for those who suffer.