"Broken Home" is the second single from the band Papa Roach's second album, Infest. While "Broken Home" had some popularity, it did not have the same amount of popularity that Papa Roach's debut single "Last Resort" had.

Although "Broken Home" had some popularity, it did not have the popular that Papa Roach's debut single "Last Resort" had. "Broken Home" peaked at number 9 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 18 on the Mainstream Rock chart. The song was on the Modern Rock Tracks chart for 20 weeks and was on the Mainstream Rock chart for 19 weeks.

According to Chad Childers of Loudwire, Papa Roach vocalist Jacoby Shaddix is "a master at baring his soul in" "Broken Home". According to The Observer, "Broken Home"'s title "says it all". According to Sal Cinquemani of Slant, "Broken Home" is "painfully reductive". According to Scott Seward of Spin, "Broken Home" tries "to pick at teendom's boo-boos with Jonathan Davis' self-lacerating edge".

In an interview with Dan MacIntosh of Songfacts, Papa Roach member Tobin Esperance said that "Broken Home" "started out as a real funky kind of groove - a heavy guitar thing" and continued by saying "I was playing that at rehearsal, and it reminded me of Helmet; we were really into this band, Helmet, from the East Coast, and the riff kind of reminded us of one of their songs. I don't remember the exact song. We all just started jamming on it".

Esperance also spoke about what the song is about, saying: "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. It's another painful subject to bring up, but people just let loose when it came to that song."

Marcos Siega said that the song is "about a broken home and being torn between your parents". Jacoby Shaddix said that the song "Broken Home" is about his family "falling to pieces pretty much and being stuck in the middle of two parents." He also said "One of them was actually not ever there. I had a bed-wetting problem for a lot of years, and I had a problem with my father." Shaddix also said "When he was 18 or so, my biological father went to the Vietnam War to be a killer for the U.S. government, and it really put a tax on his life." Shaddix says angrily. "That war set up a lot of broken homes."

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