A young child dies of exhaustion, his limp body has been pushed to the limit and he finally gives in to death and another child just became a statistic. This child was not even eleven years old. They had just finished their twenty-hour day and then returned home 10 km from their workplace. They could see their house in the distance, which gave them hope to continue walking. They dragged their feet towards the corner where they slept; their eyes droop not only from physical fatigue, but also from the pain of living like this. The last thing this little child saw was darkness, the last thing this weak child felt was coldness, and the last thing this unfortunate child could do was give up. This child can finally rest. This child was a victim of child labor. So, I ask you; Is child labor morally acceptable? I will argue that child exploitation is always wrong, but that child labor is sometimes a necessary evil. I will also distinguish between child labor and child labor. According to UNICEF, there are approximately one hundred and fifty-eight million children aged five to fourteen working worldwide. Millions of children are engaged in hazardous situations or conditions, such as working in mines, working with chemicals and pesticides in agriculture, or working with dangerous machinery. They are everywhere but invisible, working as servants in homes, working behind the walls of workshops, out of sight on plantations. If there is nothing wrong with child labor, why is its exploitation so secretive? Have you ever wondered when you go to some stores how a handmade t-shirt can be so cheap? Or on the other hand, the products that are sold to us at extremely high prices and that we assume...... middle of paper ...before school paper deliverers could actually benefit from an apprenticeship work, taking responsibility, and a little money. If a child works part-time, he can learn the value of money. So I think the issue of child labor is not simple. As the 1997 UNICEF report on the State of the World's Children stated, child labor must be seen as being at two extremes. On the one hand, there is destructive or exploitative work and, on the other, there is beneficial work - promoting or enhancing children's development without interfering with their schooling, leisure and rest. “And between these two poles are broad areas of work that need not be detrimental to a child’s development.” My firm belief is that there is a difference between child labor and child labor and that in both cases the question is whether the child is being deliberately exploited or not..