The family replication problem is addressed in the context of the dual standard model. The breaking of a simple grand unified group to $(G_{\mathrm{low}}\times H_1\times H_2\times H_3)/Z_5^3$, and then further to $G_{\mathrm{low}}$, produces a spectrum of stable monopoles that falls into three families, each of whose magnetic quantum numbers correspond to the electric charges on the fermions of the standard model. Here $G_{\mathrm{low}}=\left[\mathrm{SU}\right(3)\times \mathrm{SU}(2)\times \mathrm{U}(1\left)\right]/Z_6$ is the symmetry group of the standard model above the weak scale, and $H_i$ are simple Lie groups which each have a $Z_5$ symmetry in common with $G_{\mathrm{low}}$.

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