diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
index 0ccc7a2b4482ec..72f484fd1cbe77 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
@@ -1631,6 +1631,9 @@ async/await code consider using the high-level
    conforms to the :class:`asyncio.SubprocessTransport` base class and
    *protocol* is an object instantiated by the *protocol_factory*.
 
+   If the transport is closed or is garbage collected, the child process
+   is killed if it is still running.
+
 .. method:: loop.subprocess_shell(protocol_factory, cmd, *, \
                stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, \
                stderr=subprocess.PIPE, **kwargs)
@@ -1654,6 +1657,9 @@ async/await code consider using the high-level
    conforms to the :class:`SubprocessTransport` base class and
    *protocol* is an object instantiated by the *protocol_factory*.
 
+   If the transport is closed or is garbage collected, the child process
+   is killed if it is still running.
+
 .. note::
    It is the application's responsibility to ensure that all whitespace
    and special characters are quoted appropriately to avoid `shell injection
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-subprocess.rst
index 03e76bc868905e..9416c758e51d95 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-subprocess.rst
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ Creating Subprocesses
    See the documentation of :meth:`loop.subprocess_exec` for other
    parameters.
 
+   If the process object is garbage collected while the process is still
+   running, the child process will be killed.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.10
       Removed the *loop* parameter.
 
@@ -95,6 +98,9 @@ Creating Subprocesses
    See the documentation of :meth:`loop.subprocess_shell` for other
    parameters.
 
+   If the process object is garbage collected while the process is still
+   running, the child process will be killed.
+
    .. important::
 
       It is the application's responsibility to ensure that all whitespace and