 Due to its tone and subject matter , it is considered one of the band 's darker songs , alongside " Adam 's Song " , their 2000 single revolving around suicide . Hoppus told an interviewer at the time of the album 's release that " There 's always a song or two where we really try to really push ourselves [ ... ] On this new record I think we 've done a lot of different stuff that people wouldn 't ever expect from us . [ ... ] On the new one , it 's ' Stay Together for the Kids . ' " DeLonge later confirmed he had received emails from fans thanking him for the song 's message . " With " Stay Together " , we get emails — just kid after kid after kid — saying , ' I know exactly what you 're talking about ! That song is about my life ! ' " In 2002 , divorce statistics were four times higher than their average just over thirty years prior , with over 50 percent of marriages ending in divorce . " You look at statistics that 50 percent of parents get divorced , and you ’ re going to get a pretty large group of kids who are pissed off and who don ’ t agree with what their parents have done , " said DeLonge . " Stay Together " was the final song completed during the recording sessions ; it was created one day before the album was handed off to the mixing engineer . 
