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I've known parents who removed doors from their kids' rooms because they don't want the kid to lock them out.
Not as uncommon as you'd think.
a window was open in the house and I accidentally shut the door too loudly one time and my door was removed for ~~weeks~~ months (there was no history of me slamming doors, I think punishment for the sake of punishment was the point)
no privacy for changing, sleeping, etc. - it was stressful
EDIT: I just remembered it was more than weeks, it was months - I had journal entries about wondering when I would ever get my door back.
I had no knowledge of how common grounding by door removal was until today
The first thing my mom did when we moved into our house when I was 8 was take my door off it's hinges. It wasn't even a punishment, I just wasn't allowed to have one, i just got a curtain. My dad installed a door on my room when I was 17, two weeks before I moved away for college, because it was about to become the guest room, and wouldn't it be weird if the guest room didn't have a door?