Google asked employees to stop using the word 'family' after staff complained it was 'offensive and homophobic'
"There are families without kids too...more conscientious about the fact that there is a diverse makeup of parents and families," Google's VP of Engineering Pavni Diwanji said
Google reportedly asked its employees to be "more conscientious" about the usage of the word "family" and to be more inclusive when using the term as "there are families without kids too."
This directive from Google's Vice President of Engineering Pavni Diwanji came after internal communications, accessed by right wing publication The Daily Caller, revealed that many employees took issues with the use of the word to only indicate a unit that had children.
The website, which claims to have viewed internal communications from an insider in the conglomerate’s California headquarters, says the trigger was a March 2017 presentation about a product aimed at young addult, where the term was used to indicate that all families have children.