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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that it's poor form to invite a whole family except one child.  It's just.... unkind.  However if you like these people, I would take my son and leave my husband home with my daughter as others suggested.

But if you get there and there are other 9 YO girls in attendance? I'd be pissed.  Probably wouldn't get over that.[/quote]

We did this for my son's BM. We invited many neighbors and not their kids. If we invited every neighbor's kid, it would have been an extra 30 kids. At $100 a pop, I wasn't going to spend an extra $3,000 on kids that my son wasn't friends with and had no interest in having there. It was his day and the friends that he wanted there were the only ones invited except for his cousin's. So even if there is another 9 year old that may be a close family friend or cousin. When our son's friends had their's, our younger DC wasn't invited either. We never took at as "poor form"or an insult" That's what the kid and the parents wanted.

Not every parent was invited either. Only the ones we were good friends with and knew my son well.

It is not just a birthday party but a very special celebration that  each family decides how they want to celebrate. A backyard barbecue is one thing, a catered very expensive event is something else entirely.

Nobody is suggesting that every neighbor's kid be invited, and I think everyone appreciates that it's a special event.  The question is whether one should exclude a single family member IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES.

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Yes they should exclude a single family member and I'm sure would be excluding other non-friend people.   Who in the other family is the DD friendly with?  OP and her DH were invited as neighbors not friends of the kid.[/quote]

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