Women who complain about the high price of divorce should consider the price some women pay to get out of an unhappy marriage. Chudhry Rashid, the Pakistani owner of a pizza parlor near Atlanta, has been charged with killing his 25-year-old daughter because she wanted to end her arranged marriage.

Sandeela Kanwal had been living apart from her husband in Chicago for several months, and living in her parents' home in Georgia. She had not spoken to her father for two months because of their disagreement about her leaving her husband.

Their conflict came to an end early Sunday morning in her upstairs bedroom.

Rashid was arrested on suspicion he strangled his daughter with a Bungee cord. When he was arraigned, on July 7, he told the judge, through a translator, "I have done nothing wrong."

Honor killings involve both men and women, but women are killed for disgracing the family by being seen in public with a young man who is not a relative, marrying outside their religion or culture, or asking for a divorce.

In the United Kingdom, home to thousands of Pakistani, there is a dedicated unit meant to protect young women from unwanted arranged marriages. The Forced Marriage Unit handles about 400 cases a year in Great Britain. Some young women are forced into marriage in England, some are sent abroad for an arranged marriage.

It's enlightening to remember that England outlawed slavery 60 years before the United States freed its slave. And forced marriage is slavery by another name.