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Adjective: self-reliant  ,self-ri'lI-unt
  1. (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment
    "By the end of the decade, two-thirds of central Los Angeles had been paved over to make room for the myth of self-reliant families";
    - autonomous, self-directed

See also: independent

Encyclopedia: Self-reliant