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.
Today, there approximately 400,000 people with Down syndrome living in the United States. MYTH: Down syndrome is hereditary and runs in families. TRUTH: Translocation, a type of Down syndrome that accounts for 3 to 4% of all cases, is the only type of Down syndrome known to have a hereditary component.