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@@ -190,7 +190,8 @@ kubectl get configmap
 No resources found in default namespace.
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-To sum things up, when there's an override owner reference from a child to a parent, deleting the parent deletes the children automatically. This is called `cascade`. The default for cascade is `true`, however, you can use the --cascade=orphan option for `kubectl delete` to delete an object and orphan its children. 
+To sum things up, when there's an override owner reference from a child to a parent, deleting the parent deletes the children automatically. This is called `cascade`. The default for cascade is `true`, however, you can use the --cascade=orphan option for `kubectl delete` to delete an object and orphan its children.  *Update: starting with kubectl v1.20, the default for cascade is `background`.*
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 In the following example, there is a parent and a child. Notice the owner references are still included. If I delete the parent using --cascade=orphan, the parent is deleted but the child still exists: