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Originally posted by Pragma
I've had locks on my doors, and would definitely allow my kids to have the same.
At least in my mind, there's a large difference between "the door is shut and they probably won't come in" and "the door is locked and they can't come in" in terms of privacy. Now, I've never done anything that warranted that kind of privacy, but it was nice to know it was there for me. 
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That's my feeling about all of this, that you don't have to worry about the chance of parents walking in unexpectedly. I do nothing that really warrants being kept a secret, but I like to be ensured that I can have time to myself sometimes, time not to be shared with anybody else.
Oh, and I've never had a door that had a lock. Until the past 1 1/2 years, I lived in a bedroom with no doors at all. Now I have a door that's held shut by only a nail and a loop of string. However, the privacy isn't that bad to come by now; my bedroom is only obtainable by walking up the steep wooden stairs we have, so I can hear heavy footsteps coming slowly very easily. That's the redeeming quality of being upstairs here, I guess.