If the player talks to Khloe after turning in the weekly journal, Khloe mentions her mother and talks about her in the present tense, so she's still alive. But there's no mention of this mother in the material related to her older sister Zhloe. And the quest introducing her mentions her paying off her family's debts to Rowena, implying that her parents couldn't do it themselves. And with Zhloe constantly joking about how constantly she's on the brink of starvation, and later on talking about how she's the only one who can look after Khloe, I'm not sure how this all adds up?

So is this a case similar to Leveva's mother, where Mama Aliapoh is actually dead/absent despite the in-game text talking about her as if she were still alive/present? Or is she just so incapable of work so Zhloe has to take care of everything?