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The purpose of this study is to investigate how family background factors such as parents' academic level, income level, and home literacy environment, influence the children's early literacy in English. For this purpose, the qualitative meta analysis was conducted by synthesizing the results of previous studies. The subjects of this study were 12 researches from 1996 to 2014. The first finding of this study is higher parents' academic level tends to lead the children to a better achievement in English literacy. Second, with the parents' higher income level, the children tend to gain a better mean score in English literacy. Third, creating literacy environment had a direct positive effect on children's English literacy ability. However, affective support didn't have a significant effect on literacy development on the contrary to our expectation. The overall children's English literacy development was positively correlated with parents factors and home environments.