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.
In 90% of Trisomy 21 cases, the additional chromosome comes from the mother's egg rather than the father's sperm. Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder caused by a chromosomal abnormality. It affects 1 out of every 800 to 1,000 babies.