Vocalist Jacoby Shaddix said that "Broken Home" was about his family "falling to pieces, pretty much, and being stuck in the middle of two parents... One of them was actually not ever there.

"[4] Bassist Tobin Esperance added that "Jacoby chose lyrically to set the topic in divorce, which is something that everybody in the band has dealt with and kids all over deal with.

"[10] Other reviews were less positive, citing a sense of immaturity; Sal Cinquemani of Slant called the track "painfully reductive"[11] and Scott Seward of Spin wrote that it "[tried] to pick at teendom's boo-boos with Jonathan Davis' self-lacerating edge.

Filmed in the middle-class neighborhood of Burbank, California,[2] the video shows Papa Roach performing in a house.

This performance is interspersed with clips of a child's life and his dysfunctional family, including the mother's substance abuse and the father's rape of her and his infidelity.

[13] The process of filming was difficult on the band and crew; both Shaddix and a production assistant suffered mental breakdowns, leading to the latter reportedly stealing a van and disappearing for two days.