 The music video for " Stay Together for the Kids " was directed by Samuel Bayer , best known for his work with Metallica and Nirvana . In the clip , Blink @-@ 182 perform in a suburban home that is destroyed with a wrecking ball in a metaphor for a " crumbling marriage . " The video opens with a statistic , claiming that " 50 percent of American households are destroyed by divorce . " 
