Hi Bryan,

This is returning an javaassist lazy proxy instance, rather than the fully initialized Child instance I'd expect

well, the fact that you get back a javaassist proxy instance, does not mean that it must be also uninitialized.
I guess it is initialized as the specification says.

Please try to put following code at the end and let us know the output:

System.out.println("isUninitialized: " + ((HibernateProxy)c).getHibernateLazyInitializer().isUninitialized();