Parent support for reading is one of the many elements that may play a role in the development and sustainment of children's reading motivation; to date, however, research has focused much more on the role that parents play in their preschool and primary-grade children's reading than in their older children's reading. Thus, this paper examines the findings and methodology of empirical studies concerning the ways and extent to which parent support for reading relates to the reading motivations and habits of students in the fourth through 12th grades. The review includes discussion of extant quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method studies, theoretical models from the reading domain applicable to the socialization of reading practices, and extensive recommendations for future research. The dual purpose of this review is to present a sketch of the role of parents' in adolescents' reading motivation based on extant work and to encourage research that will help develop this sketch into a fuller portrait.How can parents help their children become lifelong readers? Much research has addressed this question by examining the role that parents play in helping preschool and primarygrade children become interested and skilled in reading. Reviews of this research indicate that parent involvement in their children's reading activities and their beliefs about reading both correlate with and have causal impact on reading motivation and achievement (Baker et al. 1997;Baker 2003;Senechal and Young 2008). Do these same positive effects occur at adolescence? Extant research concerning parent involvement in and encouragement of older children's and adolescents' reading motivation and activity suggests so, but this literature is limited in both quantity and methodology. To extend understanding of and, hopefully, inspire greater attention to the role of parents in adolescents' reading, this review offers critique and synthesis of existing studies, aiming particularly for their integration with