At the age of thirteen, a Jewish male ordinarily celebrates a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, and a Jewish female celebrates a Bat Mitzvah ceremony. This event symbolically signifies the individual’s entry into the adult community. The modern era of guardianship reform in the United States recently celebrated the functional equivalent of a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, as a broad array of legal academicians, practitioners, and judicial experts in the field gathered for two days at the end of 2001 at Stetson University College of Law for Wingspan—The Second National Guardianship Conference. We met for the assigned purpose of reviewing and revising the recommendations made exactly thirteen years prior at the National Guardianship Symposium, convened in 1988 and known as Wingspread. The 1988 Wingspread Symposium was organized in reaction to revelations of the Pulitzer-Prize winning Associated Press initiative on guardianship in the mid-1980s. By undertaking this event at Stetson, the current guardianship-reform movement attempted to continue its evolution from an adolescent to an adult endeavor, understanding and accepting both the satisfactions and the responsibilities that the latter entails. Like the dreaded great uncle who later grades the performance of the Bar-or-Bat-Mizvah-celebrant in reading from the Torah during the ceremony, I accept this opportunity to offer a few brief reflections on the discussions that I heard during the 2001 Wingspan Conference, during which participants struggled with the challenge of a contemporary movement’s entry into the adult community of law and social policy.