In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to navigating the etiquette of children's birthday parties as a non-parent.

I’m not sure if they just assumed I wouldn’t want to come to the party because it will be a lot of children, but ...

After another parent received the usual request, they wondered "Is this a new way of celebrating birthdays I've never heard ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A friend sent me an invitation to her child’s 7th birthday party; however, it came with a handwritten ...