Post 54. Co-signing and being a guarantor are two different things. Every co-signer is a guarantor, but not every guarantor is a co-signer. If you pledge to repay a debt of another without the possibility of personal return, then you are the co-signer.
About 6,000 babies with Down syndrome are born in the United States every year, and the national population of people with DS is estimated to be 400,000. Babies with DS and typically developing infants are more alike than they are different.
20/100,000: Center for Disease Control and Prevention. 3 of these babies are born with Muscular Dystrophy. 10 of these babies are born with Down Syndrome. 1/1,000: Center for Disease Control. 20 of these babies are born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. 100 of these babies are born with Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder. 1/100: Teratology 1997 Nov;56(5):317-26. The comprehensive lifetime cost of just one baby with FAS could be as much as $5 million. The cost to American taxpayers for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is estimated to be over $5 million a day.