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Story of Shanda Renee Sharer

Kids these days are growing up faster and faster. Some may believe this to be a good thing while others like me think that kids should be kids. When kids try to be adults, they cannot rationally think like adults do. Their minds and hormones are not fully developed so that when things start going bad because they can’t get things out of life that they think they should, and instead of thinking through the problems, they act on them.
That’s why I’m writing this is to just show you how important it is that parents should be involved in their children’s lives. I believe that the terrible story I’m going to tell you would have had a different ending if that were the case. The whole time that I read the story of Shanda Renee Sharer, I kept thinking where are all these kids parents. So this is the story.
Shanda Sharer was one of the youngest murder victims in the state of Indiana in 1992. She was just like any other 12–year-old, sweet and outgoing. When she g...

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