Kahn supports his family, his mother and five brothers and sisters for his father.
His father who had been a melancholiac commited suicide.
His mother was severly shocked by her husband's death. She hardly takes care of the youngest who suffers from malnutrition.

Con kahn had to quit school to work at a rice field owned by others .
After finishing his daily work in the field, he walks for 2 hours to return home and catches frogs for in a nearby rice field from his house only depending on sound of frogs in the dark night without light.