Verify a statement about AR Base delete vs. destroy

Rails
1

If I call the delete(id) method on a AR Base descendant, should I expect
the automatic deletion of child records specified via has_many
:children, :dependent => :delete_all to occur or not?

Thanks,
Wes

2

Delete literally just executes “DELETE FROM foos where = 123”. Nothing
fancy (easily verifiable from the source)

Fred