I'm not using CF ORM, but I'll answer anyway. We use a home-built ORM where all our DAO's extend a base DAO that provides basic inserts, and updates and selects. Our base DAO is coded to assume those columns exist in every table and include them automatically in every query. For what it's worth, I also default the date columns in the database as well. I do include them as part of the model since it is information I might want to ask the object for.
~Brad