Timers are orphans

Rectangle {
    width: 480; height: 800
    Item { id: item }
    Timer { interval: 1000; running: true;
        onTriggered: print("item's parent: " + item.parent.toString() +
                           "\ntimer's parent: "+ parent.toString()); }
}

item's parent: QDeclarativeRectangle(0x8c9b4e8)
timer's parent: null

Rectangle {
    width: 480; height: 800
    Item { id: item }
    Timer { id: timer; interval: 1000; running: true;
        onTriggered: print("item's parent: " + item.parent.toString() +
                           "\ntimer's parent: "+ timer.parent.toString()); }
}

TypeError: Result of expression 'timer.parent' [undefined] is not an object.