Drenched in trendy psychobabble, legislation in New Hampshire proposes to fight trauma with trauma.

Drenched in trendy psychobabble, legislation in New Hampshire proposes to fight trauma with trauma.

A bill in New Hampshire effectively equates strong emotion with abuse. The sponsors seem to have been inspired by the wrong Spock.After decades of expanding the child welfare surveillance state to the point that more than one in three children – and a majority of Black children – will be forced to endure the trauma of a child abuse investigation by the time they turn 18, some states have noticed: They’ve been doing the same thing over and over a…