If i raise an adopted child,would i be a single mother?

@SW-User how so? Do you mean to tell me Britain does not consider adopted children actual children of their parents? How would she not be a parent.

@SW-User no she would be a single parent. The issues with UK legal stuff is things like I have a friend who is married. His wife is absent and has bfir months but he can't locate her. He can't yet claim as a single parent until divorce us settled... Which is difficult as she is absent.