Funny, but I was talking about something quite similar just a few days ago.
People aren't property. Or they shouldn't be. Under any circumstances.
I know, in a kyriarchal, patriarchal, capitalist, money obsessed, wealth driven world, pretty much anyone who isn't near the top of the hierarchy is treated like some other people's or some other institution's property.
It's a thing.
It's a thing that's destroying us.
Don't reproduce that social pattern.