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| Theme music composer | Kari Kimmel |
| Opening theme | "Where You Belong" by Kari Kimmel |
| Composer(s) | Alec Puro |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 73 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 42 minutes |
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| Distributor | Disney–ABC Domestic Television |
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| Original network | Freeform |
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480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) |
| Original release | June 3, 2013 – present |
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The Fosters is an American family drama television series created by Peter Paige and Bradley Bredeweg for ABC Family (renamed Freeform channel). It follows the lives of the title Foster family led by lesbian couple Stef and Lena, a cop and school administrator respectively, who raise a multi-ethnic blended family that consists of one biological and four adopted children in San Diego, California.
The series first aired in the United States on the network on June 3, 2013, and its first season received generally favorable reviews from critics which garnered particular acclaim for its portrayal of LGBT themes. It also earned two GLAAD Media Awards and one Teen Choice Award.
The series tells of police officer Stef Foster and her wife Lena Adams, a school vice principal, and their multi-ethnic, blended family. Stef and Lena are the parents of Brandon, who is Stef's biological son, and the twins, Jesus and Mariana who were adopted as small children. At the outset of the series, the couple take in two foster children: Callie and Jude, who had been removed from an abusive home. Also part of their lives is Mike Foster, Stef's patrol partner and ex-husband as well as Brandon's father.
Most of the show takes place in their quiet San Diego suburb and at Anchor Beach Community Charter School, where Lena works and the Foster children go to school.
The Fosters was originally conceived by openly gay creators Bradley Bredeweg and Peter Paige who wanted to write a drama that reflected the "modern American family". After originally considering a story about two gay fathers, the pair decided the subject of two men raising a family had already been done on television and began to instead consider a story about two women. When asked about the concept of two lesbian mothers raising a blended family, Bredeweg stated, "We realized that there was a kind of a vacuum when it came to stories about women raising families. So we set off in that direction. Many of our own friends are moms raising biological kids. Some of them have fostered and adopted. Suddenly, we realized that we had a story here that hadn't been told on television before." Additionally, certain elements of the series which deal with the foster care system are said to have been inspired by a troubled childhood friend of Bredeweg, who struggled in the foster system before eventually being adopted in her senior year of high school.
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